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Debian: What program belongs to what package?

Hello, I need your assistance. In Debian how can I find out which program belongs to what package? For example, with rpm, I can use rpm -qf and rpm -ql to associate a program to a package and list the files of that package respectively. Thank you

Try dpkg-deb -S pattern

Fom 'man dpkg'
-S, --search filename-search-pattern... Search for a filename from installed packages.

apt-file also provides similar functionality but isn't usually installed by default.

'dpkg -L packagename' will list the content of a package.

+1 descendant_command

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Try dpkg-deb -S pattern

Fom 'man dpkg'
-S, --search filename-search-pattern... Search for a filename from installed packages.

Those aren't the same thing

Code:

man dpkg-deb

      -Scompress-strategy

              Specify which compression strategy  to  use  on  the  compressor

              backend,  when  building  a package (since dpkg 1.16.2). Allowed

              values are none (since dpkg 1.16.4), filtered, huffman, rle  and

              fixed for gzip (since dpkg 1.17.0) and extreme for xz.



man dpkg

              -S, --search filename-search-pattern...

                  Search for a filename from installed packages.

As a alternate, you can try apt-cache

Code:

apt-cache search foobar



man apt-cache

      search regex...

          search performs a full text search on all available package lists

          for the POSIX regex pattern given, see regex(7). It searches the

          package names and the descriptions for an occurrence of the regular

          expression and prints out the package name and the short

          description, including virtual package names. If --full is given

          then output identical to show is produced for each matched package,

          and if --names-only is given then the long description is not

          searched, only the package name and provided packages are.



          Separate arguments can be used to specify multiple search patterns

          that are and'ed together.

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Originally Posted by Sefyir (Post 5704935)

Those aren't the same thing

Yeah ...:foot:

man dpkg mentions that some functions use dpkg-deb and dpkg-query for the heavy lifting and my fingers typed what I just read, rather than what I meant :)

You can try this page too:
https://packages.debian.org/index