Find files in debian packages

posted on 07:58 AM on Monday 30 September 2013

To locate a package that provides a certain file like yum whatprovides, you can use apt-file. To see which package provided an existing file, use dpkg -S full_path_to_file. Details at: http://nicholaskuechler.com/2011/02/10/debian-ubuntu-equivalents-of-yum-whatprovides/