On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:24:36PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 6/16/05, Charlie Zender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. Which package contains the man-pages for C-library functions like > > sprintf()? > > manpages-dev > > > 2. Is there a way to ask the system which package owns a specific > > installed file? > > $ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man3/sprintf.3.gz > manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/sprintf.3.gz > > > 3. Is there a way to determine the name of the (non-installed) package > > which owns a particular (non-installed) filename? e.g., which package > > will install the file printf.1.gz? > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > > Look for "Search the contents of packages".
Hi,
'apt-file' will do the same thing (it downloads a db of the info) and
works offline.
cheers,
Kev
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