Re: get package name from file name

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

Wolodja Wentland wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:22 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote:
>> how can I tell which package installs a given file ?
>> something like:
>> 
>> # find-package-from-file /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
>> libxml2
> 
> As always there are multiple to do this :)
> 
>     * dpkg -S /path/to/file
>     * apt-file search /path/to/file
>     * dlocate -S /path/to/file

another way is 
wajig whichpkg /path/to/file

raju
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