How do I discover what package provides a certain file?

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

On 2/24/07, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all, I was trying to figure out what package on my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
> box provided a certain file.
>

Hi Eric,

There is a program called 'apt-file' that search for a particular files or
patterns on the packages.
At first use you need to apt-get update, then run apt-file update to
download the contents.tar.gz (around 20MB) file in the ubuntu repository.

then do (i.e. apt-file search gtk.h)

Hope this helps
Joel

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