Hi, On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 05:43:33PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > > What package can I find aclocal in? > > I need to set up my autotools project in the newly installed Debian.. > > How to find out what package a file is in: > > 1) Use http://packages.debian.org/ to search for the file by name.
Followed the link. Scrolled to the section "Search the contents of packages" Entered "aclocal" and selected second option Got 1 result - bash-completion I don't thin k this is the one. And I presume all others will give the same name, so stop right there. Thank you. > > 2) Use apt-file to search a local copy of the package file lists. > > 3) Use "apt search" (or "apt-cache search") with cleverly chosen keywords > and try to filter the results. This is getting harder and harder, as > the number of packages grows. > > 4) Make reasonable guesses about what you *think* the package name should > be, and try installing those. >