Debian package question
Alex Satrapa
grail at goldweb.com.au
Sun Mar 10 01:57:02 EST 2002
At 02:42 9/03/02 +1100, Grant Morphett wrote:
>So I have my debian system and I know its missing a certain file.
apt-cache search "pattern"
Will return a list of the debian packages which contain "pattern" in their
description.
I do not yet know of any way to find a debian package that contains a
particular file, unless that package happens to be installed already - in
which case you can use dpkg to show which package the already-installed
file belongs to.
HTH
HAND.
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