Re: Debian package manager question - luv-main

21 Dec 2014

Arjen Lentz said... 

...
 Hi Allan 
...
 On 21 December 2014 4:55:06 PM AEST, Allan Duncan
&lt;amd2345(a)fastmail.com.au&gt;
wrote:
>I have a corrupt file and wish to find which package it belongs to. 
>
>In rpm I would do:
>     rpm -qf <file name with full path> 
>
>What is the equivalent in dpkg etc? 
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 dpkg -S {/path/to/file} 
In Debian all packages have all files listed in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ file 
names is whatever_package.list. 

The command "grep file_name *.list" within the above directory will bring 
up the file and the name of the package. 

Lindsay