[clug] GNUstep

[Bob Edwards]

On 11/09/17 14:31, steve jenkin via linux wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> Really useful tool - thanks very much.
>
> I’ve mucked around with 'dpkg -L' and 'dpkg -S' previously. lots of work.
>
> Currently doing a little thing where this is exactly what I need: identifying packages for ~300 std commands.
>
> cheers
> steve

I use dpkg -S because it is already there by default (on standard
Debian systems) and just works - apt-file needs to be installed...
on each machine you need it on... lots in my case...

cheers,

Bob Edwards.

>
>> On 9 Sep 2017, at 17:11, Stephen Hocking via linux <linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>
>> A cursory google yielded this -
>>
>> apt-file search /path/to/file
>>
>> to find out what package installs a file. Although this may not hold
>> for things in your home directory.
>
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