On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 7:25 am, Harry Putnam wrote: > If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package > contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know > about it.
apt-cache search only checks package names and descriptions > And dpkg -S xpm.h doesn't either It does if you have the relevant package installed #dpkg -S xpm.h #xlibs-dev: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/xpm.h Otherwise try here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents Simon Hepburn.
