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Find what package supplied a tool / application in Ubuntu 11.10

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How do I find the package that provides a file?

When you type a command in the terminal in Ubuntu that you have not installed but can supplied by a package Ubuntu will suggest the package to be installed.

How do I do the other way around? How do I look for what package supplied the command I am typing in a terminal?

dpkg -S /usr/bin/termit

returns

termit: /usr/bin/termit

apt-file find /usr/bin/termit

returns

termit: /usr/bin/termit

Where termit is an terminal emulator supplied by package termit.

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answered 1 Year ago byishted · Accepted Answer

If you have apt-file installed and configured, you can do:

apt-file find <filename>

This is also handy when you're looking for a command that you don't have installed yet, e.g. if you're working from instructions seen on the web that use a command you don't have.

If you only want to query packages that are installed, you can use:

dpkg -S <pattern>

E.g. for a file that is installed:

% apt-file find /usr/bin/oodraw

openoffice.org-draw: /usr/bin/oodraw

% dpkg -S oodraw

openoffice.org-draw: /usr/share/man/man1/oodraw.1.gz

openoffice.org-draw: /usr/bin/oodraw

and for a file that is not installed:

% dpkg -S /usr/bin/python3.1

dpkg: /usr/bin/python3.1 not found.

% apt-file find /usr/bin/python3.1

python3.1-dbg: /usr/bin/python3.1-dbg

python3.1-dbg: /usr/bin/python3.1-dbg-config

python3.1-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/python3.1

python3.1-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/python3.1-dbg-gdb.py

python3.1-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/python3.1-gdb.py

python3.1-dev: /usr/bin/python3.1-config

python3.1-minimal: /usr/bin/python3.1