Bug#47440: marked as done (apt-get could learn about Contents-*.gz files)
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From: Kai Henningsen <kai@khms.westfalen.de>
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Subject: apt-get could learn about Contents-*.gz files
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Package: apt
Version: 0.3.13
Severity: wishlist
Now and then you want to install any package that contains a certain
file. Obviously, what you need to do is grep through the relevant
Contents-* files. Which you need to update first. And somehow keep track
of all of them.
Sounds like a job for apt.
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Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-0pre2 The GNU stdc++ library
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From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: this is done by apt-file
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There now exists a separate tool, apt-file, which implements this
functionality.
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