Re: Aptitude/apt search question

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 15:35:28 +0100, Bob Cox wrote:
> I may be missing the blindingly obvious, so apologies if so.
> 
> I wanted to run the 'ip' command and found it wasn't installed on the
> particular box I was using.  As it was installed on another machine I
> was able to:
> 
>    bob@trantor:~$ which ip
>    /bin/ip
> 
>    bob@trantor:~$ dpkg -S ip | grep '/bin/ip$'
>    iproute: /bin/ip
> 
> So I knew I needed the 'iproute' package.  Problem solved.
> 
> However, if I hadn't had it installed on that other machine, how could I
> have discovered which package I needed *without* using the excellent
> package search facility at
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents - is this sort of
> search possible with aptitude and/or apt-cache etc? 

It is possible for etc = apt-file.

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