Removed a file by accident

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Em sábado 09 outubro 2010, Knight escreveu:
> On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 09:15 -0500, C de-Avillez wrote:
> > On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:16:26 +0200
> > 
> > Knight <knightotp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > In order to find out to which package a file belongs you can (out
> > > of the box) use:
> > > 
> > > dpkg -S /sbin/restart
> > 
> > dpkg only searches on installed packages. A more generic search can
> > be done via 'apt-file'. To install it, 'sudo apt-get install
> > apt-file'.
> 
> Sorry first paragraph has typo's.
> Should be:
> 
> And you want to tell me that you have files on your computer that you
> didn't install and that don't belong to any packages or are _not_
> placed there by yourself or your users? (I cannot think of any on my
> own systems)

No, it is the other way around. The OP said he had removed the file 
accidentally. So, the file was not there anymore and therefore dpkg 
could not tell you the package which had installed that file.

[]'s
Marcelo