On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:06:03AM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > 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
No, 'dpkg -S' does substring searches (technically, you give it an unanchored wildcard match). > > 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 That's exactly as useful as 'dpkg -S'. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
