Re: [LUG] Listing files in apt?

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Grant Sewell wrote:
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| Under Mandrake I was quite used to using rpmdrake to search through
| all the RPMs and find which RPM contained a specific file.  Is there
| any way to do this with apt under Debian?

Read the Debian reference - it is a must read.

If the file is installed then "dpkg" and related tools are what you want

$ dpkg -S /bin/bash
bash: /bin/bash
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