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. > > And dpkg -S xpm.h doesn't either
I'm not sure about this, but don't you have to give the complete path, so dpkg -S /path/to/xpm/h > I'm assuming that means it isn't here but might be in a > package in the distro on line somewhere. > > Where is the database with this kind of information? > search.debian.org isn't the right place I don't think but, http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents is ... > One can compile a (rough) list of all file names in the install with: > Something like: > dpkg -L $(dpkg -l|awk '{gsub(/^..../,"",$0);print $1}') > > And with a little script, print the package name on each line too. > > But where is a database that contains that kind of information for all > packages in a distribution? That is, a list of all the file names in > all the packages of a distribution. > If you really want lists of files, I think there in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list grts Tim
