Re: How do I find what debian package ships a given program?

[cga2000 <cga2000@optonline.net>]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:19:16PM EST, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 16:40 -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).
> 
> This command will give you anything that has reference to "pgm" in it.
> 
>         apt-cache search pgm
> 
> Now if you were actually looking for "pgm"
> 
>         apt-file search pgm
> 
> Currently that gives me 745 lines of return. 

.. which is next to useless ..

> Most programs related to pgm are usually like "pgmedge" or "pgmnorm"
> or "somethingtopgm" or "pgmtosomething"

Thanks for clarifying.

> Most of these come from the "netpbm" package. "dvi2pgm" is from the
> package "tex-guy"
> 
> So, I guess what do you really want?

My beef being that there is no utility that helps you quickly locate the
package that contains a given executable .. 

Or did I miss something?

Thanks
cga