Re: What package I can find aclocal in?

[Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 05:43:33PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote:
> > What package can I find aclocal in?
> > I need to set up my autotools project in the newly installed Debian..
>
> How to find out what package a file is in:
>
> 1) Use http://packages.debian.org/ to search for the file by name.

Followed the link.
Scrolled to the section "Search the contents of packages"
Entered "aclocal" and selected second option
Got 1 result - bash-completion

I don't thin k this is the one.

And I presume all others will give the same name, so stop right there.

Thank you.

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> 2) Use apt-file to search a local copy of the package file lists.
>
> 3) Use "apt search" (or "apt-cache search") with cleverly chosen keywords
>    and try to filter the results.  This is getting harder and harder, as
>    the number of packages grows.
>
> 4) Make reasonable guesses about what you *think* the package name should
>    be, and try installing those.
>