Identifying a package from a file name

Leonard Chatagnier lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
Wed Oct 21 17:57:54 UTC 2009


--- On Wed, 10/21/09, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com>
> Subject: Identifying a package from a file name
> To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 12:43 PM
> Given a file on Ubuntu, how do I discover
> which package it came from (assuming it came from one at
> all)?
> 
Wajig whichpkg <file name> is one way. Wajig not installed by default. so, install "wajig"  HTH,

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net






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