On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 11:27, paul peeler wrote: > #apt-cache depends package-name > this will return the package-name's dependencies and what packages can > satisfy them.
That works, but you have to know the package name first. Is there a way to do a search for a package that *contains* <file_name>? I can do this with yum, but apt does not seem to have that function. If a particular app I'm compiling needs foo.so, but I dont know what foo.so is, or what other package it comes with, I'm stuck until I find it on google and find out what package its included in. (Or installing yum, which has hosed my system a couple of times, so I dont like using it) man apt, man apt-cache has given me no clues. (Unless I've missed something) --mike
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