On 2/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eric Dunbar</b> <<a href="mailto:eric.dunbar@gmail.com">eric.dunbar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all, I was trying to figure out what package on my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS<br>box provided a certain file.<br></blockquote></div><br>Hi Eric,<br><br>There is a program called 'apt-file' that search for a particular files or patterns on the packages.
<br>At first use you need to apt-get update, then run apt-file update to download the contents.tar.gz (around 20MB) file in the ubuntu repository.<br><br>then do (i.e. apt-file search gtk.h)<br><br>Hope this helps<br>Joel
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