How to find an uninstalled file?

[Dave Walker]

Ali Milis wrote:

>ubuntp <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
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>>apt-file update
>>apt-file search FILENAME
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>Uh oh... how to find "apt-file" itself, since I do not use "universe".
>But OK, now I have got "apt-file_2.0.3-7_all.deb"
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>When I tried "apt-file update";
>there is an 404 Error; because there is no 
>ubuntu/dists/hoary-security/Contents-i386.gz
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>Any clue?
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apt-get install apt-file

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dave