How can I know to which package a command belongs ?

[Colin Law]

On 25 October 2013 12:33, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
> You mean probably:
>  apt-cache show net-tools

Yes

>
>
>
> 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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