Package: command-not-found Version: 0.2.26-1 Severity: wishlist command-not-found is a lot faster than apt-file. Would it be possible to add command-not-found to /usr/bin so that it could be used as an alternative to apt-file? I often want to find out what package has a certain binary.
$ time /usr/share/command-not-found/command-not-found xml_pp The program 'xml_pp' is currently not installed. To run 'xml_pp' please ask your administrator to install the package 'xml-twig-tools ' real 0m0.080s user 0m0.028s sys 0m0.052s $ time apt-file search xml_pp xml-twig-tools: /usr/bin/xml_pp xml-twig-tools: /usr/share/man/man1/xml_pp.1p.gz real 0m1.468s user 0m1.272s sys 0m0.184s -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages command-not-found depends on: ii apt-file 2.3.0 search for files within Debian pac ii lsb-release 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base version report ii python 2.5.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-central 0.6.11 register and build utility for Pyt ii python-gdbm 2.5.2-1.1 GNU dbm database support for Pytho command-not-found recommends no packages. command-not-found suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org