Any way to search executable name?

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Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:55:59 +0100

> Is there any way to search executable name for it package?
>
> For example, from efax.rc I know that it uses "paperconf" to determine
> paper size. but "apt-cache search" can't find its package name...

Go to http://packages.debian.org and search on package contents there.

Oliver Elphick

Any way to search executable name?

> You can use dpkg -L to list the contents of an installed package...

You see, the reason I need to search is that I don't have that executable, and want to know where it comes from. :-)

I think Oliver's answer might be the only answer.

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=testing&arch=i386&word=chat

Any way to search executable name?

> I think Oliver's answer might be the only answer.

Nope:

# apt-get install apt-file && apt-file update
$ apt-file search <filename>

Thomas Adam

apt-file

A command line tool for searching packages for the APT packaging system.

Unlike apt-cache, you can search in which package a file is included or list the contents of a package without installing or fetching it.

The following extra packages will be installed:
  libapt-pkg-perl libconfigfile-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apt-file libapt-pkg-perl libconfigfile-perl
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed.
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