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Re: searching for what package includes a given file



On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:36:28PM -0500, Benjamin Rutt wrote:
> Is there a way to do that search via command-line tools without
> resorting to the web page?  I know that dpkg -S <expression> will do
> that for packages already installed on your system, but doesn't help
> for those that are not.

apt-file search <filename>

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