John Goerzen wrote:

> First off, Cabal is a packaging system and library, not a command.

I actually meant the cabal exexutable that gets installed from say
cabal-install-0.6.0.tar.gz.

> Most
> programs that use it ship a file called Setup.hs or Setup.lhs that you
> compile using ghc, or run with runghc.
> 
> I had not heard of apt-file before; thanks.

Apt-file is brilliant. Yet another reason to  use debian packaging :-).

> dpkg -S ByteString  will give you what you want.  I don't know if
> apt-file is trying to match the full filename, or maybe you have a very
> old version of Debian.

As Ian Lynagh pointed out I was searching for byestring not bytestring.

Erik
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above your head and then drop it. Thus you will be enlightened."
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