On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 04:40:55PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> 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).
> [...]
If you want to know which package an already installed file belongs
to, then dlocate is a fast tool to find out which package the file
belongs to, i.e.:
$ dlocate `which dlocate`
But as far as I can see it really only works on installed packages.
To search the files lists of all availabe packages you can use
$ apt-file search `which apt-file`
But this should only be done for files not already installed, because
from my experience it is really slow compared to dlocate.
Also dlocate should already be installed while apt-file is an optional
package. But its database is only updated once a day by a cron job.
You may have to invoke update-dlocatedb manually if you have installed
a package after the cron.daily finished.
OTH the database of apt-file always has to be updated manually by:
# apt-file update
At least that is the dafault, of course you can create a cron job for
apt-file update too.
Regards
--
Marcus Blumhagen
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction."
-- Albert Einstein
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