On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:07:26PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > Debian has an awesome search utility at > <http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages>. At the bottom of the > page, there's a "Search the contents of packages" tool, which will > tell you what package a given file comes from. > > Alternatively, if you have the Debian-installed Konqueror, > you can use "deb:<packagename>" to find packages (but not > files in packages). > > You can also also use the shortcut > "http://packages.debian.org/file:<tail>" to find packages > containing files that end with <tail>. +1. Please also check out apt-file and dlocate (for installed packages); they are invaluable in quick searching if you do not have internet access at all times. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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