Where is 'ar' ?

[Derek Broughton]

Bruno Costacurta wrote:

> On Monday 27 November 2006 16:14, Joan Tur wrote:
>> Es Dilluns, 27 de Novembre de 2006 11:25, en Bruno Costacurta va
>> escriure:
>> | Hello,
>> |
>> | I tried to open a file .deb with 'ark' which started but failed to open
>> | the file .deb returning that 'ar' is not installed.
>> |
>> | How to install it / which package ?
>>
>> command "apt-file search bin/ar" shows binutils as the package you're
>> looking for...  ;)
> 
> I cannot find any 'apt-file'.
> 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 ?

She gave you the answer - just because you don't have apt-file installed
doesn't mean it's not a perfectly good way to find this answer.  There are
others.  I like "dlocate bin/ar", but you probably can't find that one
either.
-- 
derek