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Finding which package a file belongs to on Debian

With Debian there is a handy utility called apt-file which allows you to see which package owns a file even if it is not currently installed. I used it earlier to find where “mysql_config” lived so I could upgrade DBD::mysql. aptitude install apt-file && apt-file update then apt-file search filename

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