Where is 'ar' ?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 05:56 +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> I cannot find any 'apt-file'.

It's in its own package:

aptitude show apt-file
"(...)
Description: APT package searching utility -- command-line interface
 apt-file is a command line tool for searching packages for the APT
packaging system. 
 
 Unlike apt-cache, you can search in which package a file is included or
list the contents of a package without installing 
 
 Please read README file for curl or wget instructions."


> I suppose you means 'apt-cache', however 'apt-cache bin/ar' returns
> nothing 
> and 'apt-cache search ar' returns thousends of packages...,
> 
> Where can I find which the package which contains 'ar' executable ? 

dpkg -S /bin/ar

Alternatively, "Search the contents of packages" on
http://packages.ubuntu.com/