Q: finding package that contains a man page?

[John L Fjellstad]

"D. R. Evans" <doc.evans at gmail.com> writes:

> John L Fjellstad said the following at 01/29/2008 02:50 AM :
>
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>> Use apt-file.
>>
>
> How? I have installed apt-file, but I don't see how it helps.
>
> The apt-file man page leads me to believe that "apt-file search
> getaddrinfo" ought to be helpful, but it's not :-( It returns nothing:

When I do apt-file search getaddrinfo, it returns 48 packages.  Since
this is a manpage, I would probably do something like apt-file search
getaddrinfo.3, which gives me 18 packages.

(The 3 means that the manpage is in section 3, which is the library
calls section)

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