Rick Welykochy wrote:
> How does one in general locate a specific executable or module amongst
> the debian packages?
For packages that are actually installed,
dpkg -S /path/to/file
To search for a file that is not installed, but you want to know what
package provides it, use apt-file. Its not installed by default, but
very useful.
apt-get install apt-file
apt-file update
which then lets you do things like:
apt-file search sndfile.h
resulting in:
libmodplug-dev: usr/include/libmodplug/sndfile.h
libsndfile0-dev: usr/include/sndfile.h
libsndfile1-dev: usr/include/sndfile.h
wx2.6-headers: usr/include/wx-2.6/wx/mmedia/sndfile.h
HTH,
Erik
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