How can I know to which package a command belongs ?

[Kevin Wilson]

Thanks,
You mean probably:
 apt-cache show net-tools



On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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