Re: how to find a package that provides ____._____

["Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" <tony@cantech.net.au>]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, rich wrote:

> Howdy all,
>
> I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect.... how do I find
> out which .deb package provides these?

I grab the Contents.i386.gz file (obviously use the correct arch for your
system).  Then do something like:

zgrep 'libXt.so.6' Contentsr-i386.gz
usr/X11R6/lib/debug/libXt.so.6                              devel/xlibs-dbg
usr/X11R6/lib/debug/libXt.so.6.0                            devel/xlibs-dbg
usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6                                    libs/xlibs
usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0                                  libs/xlibs
usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6                             oldlibs/xlib6
usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6.0                           oldlibs/xlib6


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^
full paths to matches                                       packages.

so in your case i'd "apt-get install xlibs" and that should do it.

Other utils like apt-search can also help  read the man pages on that tho.

HTH

Yours Tony.

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