How can I know to which package a command belongs ?

[Colin Law]

On 25 October 2013 12:18, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks Colin and Marius, both work.
> I have another question if I may:
> Is there a way to get information about some package (like  its website)?
>
> I know from fedora that when running rpm -qid net-tools, for example,
> there is a screen with a lot of information, including the URL of the
> package website

apt-cache show ifconfig

Colin

>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:50:55PM +0300, Kevin Wilson wrote:
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> How can I know to which package the command ifconfig belongs ?
>>
>> dpkg -S $(which ifconfig)
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Marius Gedminas
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