Hello. Olafur Jens Sigurdsson, 11.02.2007 22:48: > Þann 2007-02-11, 16:40:55 (-0500) skrifaði cga2000: >> Is there a debian utility that returns the name of a package that ships >> a given program..? >> >> ie. - You're looking for program "pgm" .. so you type "whichpkg pgm" >> from the prompt and the whichpkg utility returns the name of the >> package(s). > > use dpkg -S /path/to/program And if it’s not installed (or for every package) you can use apt-file: $ apt-file update $ apt-file search pgm (The doubled output when using different flavours in /etc/apt/sources.list is a known bug. If it annoys you, just pipe the command above to uniq.) Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules
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