> Hello, > > Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some > form of *NIX since 1986. ----------------- 8< ----------------- > It will spit back a list of all packages that provide that filename or > any part of it. It's treated like a substring - for example if I type > "urpmf kross" it will list the package that provides /usr/bin/kross, > and will then go on to show other packages that have that string in > it like /usr/lib64/libkokross.so.7 and so on. This can be controlled > by entering something like "urpmf /usr/bin/kcross", though other > things in /usr/bin that start with "kcross" will also show up. > > I haven't figured or found out yet how to get that kind of search > functionality within Debian. So as above, is there a way to do this, > and if so, how? >
And in addition to Neals answer, there is also apt-file that can be used like this: apt-file search <something> apt-file list <package> - before doing apt-file search, you should run apt-file update. See the manpage for more info. -- Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se gus...@gusnan.se
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