On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 14:09:26 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:27:06 +0000 > Icesan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello. I'm looking to file a bug report for GNU Make, but I do not > > know which Debian package the program is in. If you know which > > specific package the tool is in, I'd appreciate the help. Thank you. > > Well, you could guess that it is the package "make", and running "apt > show make" confirms it. > > Or you could use the apt-file program and some other tools to narrow it > down: > > charles@hawk:~$ apt-file search $( which make ) | grep /make$ > make: /usr/bin/make > make-guile: /usr/bin/make > charles@hawk:~$
Or, if they're filing a bug report, we might assume they have it installed already, in which case they can use: hobbit:~$ dpkg -S "$(which make)" make: /usr/bin/make
