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Debian and Ubuntu tip #1 You can use dpkg to figure out what package installed a file on your system. For instance, I don’t particularly like emacs so was suprised to find /etc/emacs is installed with a default Debian Etch install. debian:~# dpkg -S /etc/emacs dictionaries-common: /etc/emacs To see more information about that package (to [...]
If you want to figure out which package a file belongs to you can use rpm to find out (On a system that uses rpm). Which package does /bin/bash belong to? [root@host ~]# rpm -qf /bin/bash bash-3.0-19.3 So /bin/bash belongs to bash-3.0-19.3 The -q option lets rpm know that you want to do a query [...]
