Re: finding a package name given a filename

[Nuno Carvalho <nemanuel@student.dei.uc.pt>]

On 29 Nov 1998, Eric Jacoboni wrote:

> Nuno Carvalho <nemanuel@student.dei.uc.pt> writes:
> 
> > > Is it possible, given a filename -- say: 'as86' -- to find the package 
> > > from which it has been extracted ?
> > 
> >  dpkg --search as86
> 
> Thanks for your answer but your suggestion doesn't match my question :
> 
> =-=-=-=
> [titine]:~/$ dpkg --search as86
> bin86: /usr/doc/bin86/examples/as86_encap
> bin86: /usr/man/man1/as86.1.gz
> bin86: /usr/bin/as86
> =-=-=-=

 Didn't you want to know on what package was as86 extracted!? 
 as86 belongs to the bin86 package !!

 I think that's what you want!

 Best regards,
  Nuno Carvalho