MLUG: Re: [MLUG] Apt question
Re: [MLUG] Apt question
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On 9/23/07, Nimrod Levy <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On 9/23/07, Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > Hi good Debian people,
> >
> > On a Fedora system, I can find out what package provides a file by
> > "yum whatprovides /path/tofilename"
> >
> > How do I do the equivalent operation with Apt on Debian / Ubuntu?
>
>
> dpkg -S <filename>
>
> Apt is for retrieving packages from repositories.  The package manager
> is still dpkg.
>

OK, but as far as I can tell, that just searches installed packages.
I want to answer "I need this file, what is its package called?"
questions.

Regards,
Mark
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Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
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