Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

[Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de>]

Am Di, den 02.12.2003 schrieb Chema um 03:02:
> Heya there.
> 
> Now that packages.debian.org is down, I have found myself looking
> for "which deb provides such file/library" a pair of times.
> Having resolved the situation in unusual froms, I'm starting to
> miss packages.deb.
> 
> Is there a mirror or equivalent search engine?

apt-cache search <keyword>
will show you a package where the name or the description contains
<keyword>.
dpkg -S <filename>
will show you which package contains <filename>.
These two have been mentioned several times on this list.

joerg

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