Re: extract package name given a filename Message-ID: <87k596klul....@newsguy.com>

2009-01-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Jeff D writes: [...] > something like this: > $ dpkg -S /bin/bash > bash: /bin/bash Ron Johnson writes: [...] > Also: > $ apt-file search /bin/bash > bash: /bin/bash > bash: /usr/bin/bashbug > bash-minimal: /bin/bash-minimal > bash-static: /bin/bash-static These don't look like what I expe

Re: extract package name given a filename

2009-01-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/07/09 19:32, Jeff D wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: Last time I ran debian was several yrs ago.. back then I learned a way using dpkg to extract the packagename of files found on the machine... Assuming they came in using apt and dpkg. I even kept a note about it which of

Re: extract package name given a filename

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > Last time I ran debian was several yrs ago.. back then I learned a way > using dpkg to extract the packagename of files found on the > machine... Assuming they came in using apt and dpkg. > > I even kept a note about it which of course is no where to be fo

extract package name given a filename

2009-01-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Last time I ran debian was several yrs ago.. back then I learned a way using dpkg to extract the packagename of files found on the machine... Assuming they came in using apt and dpkg. I even kept a note about it which of course is no where to be found now that I need it again. Anyone know how to