how to map a missing file to its containing package?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  once again, from a newbie perspective, i'm just trying to map my
fedora knowledge to ubuntu.  long story short,

  * downloaded busybox
  * did "make menuconfig" for native configuration
  * was immediately told "missing curses.h"

so, trivially, i need to install the appropriate curses-related
development package that contains that header file.

  since i have a good handle on how packaging works, it was a simple
matter to run:

  $ apt-cache search curses | grep dev

and take a (correct) guess that i wanted libncurses5-dev.  but if i'm
not in a position to guess, what is the incantation to map a file to
its (uninstalled) package?  thanks.

rday
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