Re: About apt-file

[Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com>]

--- Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:

> Stephen Liu:
> > 
> > What I'm looking for is the package providing the command
> 'mysqladmin'
> > if neither having MySQL installed nor knowing which package
> provides
> > mysqladmin.  I need to install that package.
> 
> What about a simple 'apt-cache search mysql admin'? It reveals there
> is
> a package named mysql-admin.
> 
> J.

Hi Jochen,


This is only an example.  We already know mysqladmin coming from
mysql-server/-client.  Therefore we can add mysql on the search.  In
some other case if we have no idea of the package.  We only know the
command/file.  How can we find the package?  "apt-cache search
command/file" doesn't always work.


B.R.
Stephen 



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