Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

[Bill Goudie <bgoudie@mail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:24:38AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Andreas Janssen wrote:
> >Chema (<chema.news.gmane@zarco.cjb.net>) wrote:
> >
> >>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-get install apt-file
> >
> >best regards
> >        Andreas Janssen

[snip]

> /Tue Dec 02-07:51:30HDB5# apt-get install apt-file
> 
> <snip>
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   apt-file: Depends: libapt-pkg-perl but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> /Tue Dec 02-07:51:40HDB5# exit
> Script done on Tue Dec  2 07:51:43 2003
> 
> It appears perlapi-5.6.1 and libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2 are not in my 
> sources. Without messing everything up, I guess I'll have to wait. :-(

Or:
   
   wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/<release>/Contents-<arch>.gz
   zgrep <file> Contents-<arch>.gz

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