Re: searching for what package includes a given file

[Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

Nicolas Kratz <nick@ikarus.dyndns.org> writes:

> 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>

Thanks, are there any other integrated tools that can do the same
thing?  (I'm thinking of tools like wajig or aptitude here that have a
single executable for all package management tasks).
-- 
Benjamin