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Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?



dpkg --help:

Usage: 
 [ snip ]

  dpkg -S|--search <pattern> ...           find package(s) owning file(s)

Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> I just stumbled across dpkg-reconfigure (a mention of
> dpkg-reconfigure on the dpkg man page might be a good idea).
> Now, if only there was some way to figure out what package
> owned a particular file...

dpkg -S filename
or
dpkg --search filename

Elizabeth


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