Re: How to find a package of an uninstalled file?

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, Ali Milis <almilis@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to find a package of an uninstalled file?
From: Holger Levsen <debian@layer-acht.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 14:10:56 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 200503051411.00048.debian@layer-acht.org>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 36135600503050432221814d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <[🔎] 36135600503050432221814d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ali,

On Saturday 05 March 2005 13:32, Ali Milis wrote:
> May I know on how to find a package of an uninstalled file?
> For example, I was looking for "ppmtolss16".
> I tried "dpkg --search";
> but it was not there because "syslinux"was not installed.

apt-get install apt-file
apt-file update
apt-file search ppmtolss16


regards,
 Holger

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