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Re: Finding the files in a package
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Tom H <[log in to unmask]>
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Tom H <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:54:13 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Bruno Pereira <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Please notice that apt-file is not installed by default on a clean Debian
> system.
>
> dpkg -S foo_file will give you the necessary package name without installing
> further software.

"dpkg -S ..." only works for installed packages.

If you can't or don't want to install apt-file, you can grep the
file(s) that it uses (for Ubuntu):

<mirror>/ubuntu/dists/raring/Contents-amd64.gz

You can do the same for SL:

<mirror>/slc6X/x86_64/yum/os/repodata/filelists.xml.gz

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