On 29 Nov 1998, Eric Jacoboni wrote: > Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Is it possible, given a filename -- say: 'as86' -- to find the package > > > from which it has been extracted ? > > > > dpkg --search as86 > > Thanks for your answer but your suggestion doesn't match my question : > > =-=-=-= > [titine]:~/$ dpkg --search as86 > bin86: /usr/doc/bin86/examples/as86_encap > bin86: /usr/man/man1/as86.1.gz > bin86: /usr/bin/as86 > =-=-=-=
Didn't you want to know on what package was as86 extracted!? as86 belongs to the bin86 package !! I think that's what you want! Best regards, Nuno Carvalho