Re: Package of a file in debian?
Received Sun 03 Mar 2002 7:02am +1100 from Xeno Campanoli:
> Is there a similar command in apt or dpkg to this thing with rpm that
> allows you to figure out the package of a file? That really would have
> helped me recently.
As others have noted, "dpkg -S" works for installed packages and the
web page works for all packages.
My "wajig" package (available from Debian unstable) queries the web
page from the command line:
$ wajig whichpkg libcrypto
File Path Package
===========================================================-=================
usr/lib/erlang/lib/crypto-1.1.2/priv/lib/elibcrypto.so non-us/erlang
usr/lib/libcrypto.so non-us/libssl-dev
usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0 non-us/libssl09
usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.4 non-us/libssl09
usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.5 non-us/libssl095a
usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.6 non-us/libssl0.9.6
Regards,
Graham
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