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Re: Searching uninstalled packages by directory name



On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:36:01PM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how can I find all packages that will install files in a specific directory?
> 
> dpkg-query (dpkg -S) only searches installed packages. apt-file will
> only search filenames, not directory names.

Actually, apt-file will search the whole path (try 'apt-file search
bin'). If you like, try the -x option to apt-file to specify a
perl-compatible regex.

> 
> Thanks
> Malte
> 
> 
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