[PADS] finding a package by file

[Stephen Gran]

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:12:32PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson said:

> If I want the file openssl/sha.h (tonight's example), I type
>=20
>     dpkg --search openssl/sha.h
>=20
> and it tells me it's provided by libssl-dev. Good.
>=20
> I realized I didn't know how to do that with apt-cache or some other
> tool that knows how to look for files I *haven't* installed. (As I
> understand, dpkg only knows about files I've installed.) Googling
> didn't do it.=20

apt-file search <filename>

> I kind of remember a debian web search gizmo that did this, but I
> couldn't find it. (Maybe it's melted on the floor of that NOC in NL.)

http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
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