knowing the package providing a program

[John Hubbard]

Willy Hamra wrote:
> hi, if i have a certain program, how can i know what package is
> providing this program by giving it's absolute path? i have 2
> executables with the same name in 2 different directories both in
> PATH. one is provided by a 3rd party deb package, the other coming
> from the ubuntu repositories. how can i know which is which?
>
>   
Have a look at the dpkg command. If you have an idea about what package 
might be the owner of one of the files than you can do a 'dpkg -L 
packageName'. That will list all files owned by packageName. I am not 
sure how to do it if you have no idea what the owning package is. My 
only thought would be to Google 'ubuntu packages providing commandName'. 
Hope this helps.

-- 
-john

To be or not to be, that is the question
                2b || !2b
(0b10)*(0b1100010) || !(0b10)*(0b1100010)
        0b11000100 || !0b11000100
        0b11000100 || 0b00111011
               0b11111111
        255, that is the answer.