Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file
On 2025-03-13, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> I thought that too, but according to the man page, apt-get update does
> that job, too (I was always wondering to find my apt-file database
> up to date and suspected some well-meaning cron job, but that seems
> to be the secret :-)
apt-get update only updates the package lists from the repositories
configured in /etc/apt/sources.list.
apt-file update fetches the latest file index for all packages.
IOW, you should run apt-get update (packages) before apt-file update
(the files inside those packages).
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