Re: [LUG] Listing files in apt?

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Grant Sewell wrote:
| On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:41:35 +0000 Simon Waters wrote:
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|> If the file is installed then "dpkg" and related tools are what you
|> want
|>
|> $ dpkg -S /bin/bash bash: /bin/bash
|
| Thanks, but what if it's not installed?  If I am trying to find out
| what package I would need to install...

apt-file can be used to handle things apt knows about, but that aren't
installed.

It is a rather odd situation to want to know what package a file is in,
when you don't have it installed anywhere, and nothing you have depends
on it. What file are you looking for?

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