which package owns a file

which package owns a file

Posted Feb 27, 2007 23:15 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: which package owns a file by cdmiller
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note

That's a generated file rather than one installed from a package. (The base-passwd
package generates it, but I realize your point is about how to get that information.)

The easiest way I know to get that sort of information is to grep the files
in /var/lib/dpkg/info/.

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