Identifying a package from a file name

Florian Diesch diesch at spamfence.net
Wed Oct 21 18:12:11 UTC 2009


"Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com> writes:

> Given a file on Ubuntu, how do I discover which package it came from
> (assuming it came from one at all)?

dpkg -S /some/file




   Florian
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