As several people have pointed out, there is already a good way (that I was not
aware of) to find out this information, therefore I agree that this bug should
be closed.
Jack
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On 2009-01-11 20:21:59 +, Roger Leigh wrote:
% dpkg -S /usr/bin/basename
coreutils: /usr/bin/basename
This may be a bit more complex when the file is a symlink to an
alternative. Concerning the man pages, packages sometimes install
symlinks, and it isn't
Package: general
Severity: wishlist
If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name
as the program, the man page for that command should say which package
the program is part of.
This is not the case in, for instance, coreutils or util-linux.
This information is needed,
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 07:56:52PM +, Jack Grahl wrote:
If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name
as the program, the man page for that command should say which package
the program is part of.
This is not the case in, for instance, coreutils or util-linux.
* Jack Grahl [Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:56:52 +]:
Package: general
Severity: wishlist
Hello, Jack.
If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name
as the program, the man page for that command should say which package
the program is part of.
This is not the case in,
Jack Grahl, le Sun 11 Jan 2009 19:56:52 +, a écrit :
If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name
as the program, the man page for that command should say which package
the program is part of.
Mmm, usually I just run dpkg -S bin/command, or better, dlocate
Jack Grahl wrote:
Package: general
Severity: wishlist
Hello Jack,
If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name
as the program, the man page for that command should say which package
the program is part of.
This is not the case in, for instance, coreutils or
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:56:52 + (GMT)
Jack Grahl mnv...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name
as the program, the man page for that command should say which package
the program is part of.
This is not the case in, for instance,
Hi,
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 19:56 +, Jack Grahl wrote:
If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name
as the program, the man page for that command should say which package
the program is part of.
Assuming that one can run:
dpkg -S $(man -w hostname)
manpages:
Neil Williams wrote:
A final alternative is the packages.debian.org website (has the
advantage that it also allows looking up files within packages that are
not currently installed).
We also have apt-file utility, which does the same without looking to the site.
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