Linuxconf

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Mon Mar 27 20:23:09 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 20:54 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Give the file name 
> "foo" how can I find the package that provides that file? This 
> information must be provided by the package manager. 

Since the website has the access to the same information as the package
manager, it can give that info too. Scroll down on the site and find,

"Search the contents of packages
This search engine allows you to search the contents of Debian
distributions for any files (or just parts of file names) that are part
of packages. You can also get a full list of files in a given package."

Kind regards,
M





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