On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:14:15AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 02:10:36AM -0600, Dave Price wrote: > > > More generally, is there a command that can be run on a system to tell > > me what package installed a perticular file? > > dpkg -S <filename-search-pattern...> should give it to you.
AFAIK, this will only work for packages that you have (or had, but not purged) installed on your system. The canonical list is packages.debian.org, but that is apparently only for x86 and is not always up-to-date. -rob
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