Re: get package name from file name
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On 07/07/11 13:17, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> As always there are multiple to do this :)
>
> * dpkg -S /path/to/file
> * apt-file search /path/to/file
> * dlocate -S /path/to/file
>
> I prefer to use either apt-file or dlocate. The former comes in quite handy as
> it also works for packages that are not installed and it supports regular
> expressions. If you are looking for an executable, but don't know the full
> path you can search for:
>
> $ apt-file search -x "bin/foo$"
>
> which will find all files named "foo" that are in a bin/ directory somewhere.
> In particular this will not match "bin/foobar". dlocate on the other hand is a
> bit faster than "dpkg -S" and has other goodies too ... have a look.
>
> have fun
Yeee, many ways to the same goal but dlocate or apt-file aren't present
in Debian by default like dpkg is :-)
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