Whatpackage
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Revision as of 04:45, 20 July 2006 by PeterChubb (Talk | contribs)
To find what package a file belongs to I created the following script.
- There may be a quicker way to do this, please feel free to inform if you find it.
- There is: either use
dpkg -S filename
or if you have it installed,
dlocate filename
- -- PeterChubb
Ensure you are root, and run the following commands
cat > /usr/bin/whichpkg << EOF #!/bin/bash echo checking for $1 for package in `dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'` { for file in `dpkg --listfiles $package 2> /dev/null` { if echo $file | grep $1 then echo The file is from $package fi } } EOF chmod 755 /usr/bin/whichpkg
Now that the script is in place, to find the file simply use the command
whichpkg filename
For example, to find out whatpackage /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig comes from you tupe
whichpkg knoppix-autoconfig
This takes some time as it searches everypackage for the result. Hope this helps.
SNIa 03:34, 8 Jul 2006 (GMT)