Some (k)ubuntu and Thunderbird questions

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 18 11:50:23 UTC 2006


On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:25:20PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>
>1) What is the dpkg/apt-get equivalent of `rpm -qf filename`, which
>tells you the name of the package that `filename` belongs to? Can this
>be searched in any of the GUI tools?

That would be apt-file.  Also useful is apt-show-versions.

Good luck with your other questions.
-- 

yours,

William

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