Re: How to find package name for files
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Timothy Wu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to upgrade libstdc++.so.6.0.8 to a newer version in the
> /usr/lib directory. I used aptitude to install libstdc++6-dev
> package. But the /usr/lib so file is still not updated. I suspect
> that's not the package for it.
>
> Given an existing file, Is there any method to find out which
> package the file comes from? If I can find out which package the
> file is from, maybe I can guess the name of the newer package.
>
> Timothy
apt-get install apt-file
apt-file update
apt-file search
man apt-file
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