On May 17, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Robert Citek wrote:
How do a find the name of a package that provides a file using apt?
Answer: trial-and-error
Sometimes the shotgun method works well:
$ pkglist=$(apt-cache search xml2 | grep -i xml2 | awk '{print $1}')
$ apt-get install $pkglist
$ dpkg -S xml2-config
libxml2-dev: /usr/bin/xml2-config
libxml2-dev: /usr/share/man/man1/xml2-config.1.gz
$ apt-get remove $pkglistRegards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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