On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:04:58PM -0500, DvB wrote: > dpkg -S does this on installed packages but is there a way to search for > a file in packages that aren't installed yet? Does apt store this > information? While not as exact as zgrep'ing the Contents-i386.gz file, as someone else suggested, apt-cache search works well for most searches of that nature. For example, an 'apt-cache search as86' returns: bin86 - 16-bit assembler and loader -Rob