On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Aaron Gaudio wrote: > Behold, Jochen Witte <devnull@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> hath decreed: > > Hi, > > > > > > is there a way to search for a specific file with apt, just like: > > > > apt-get provides > > I don't know if apt keeps track of individual files within rpms, but > it does keep track of any "Provides" virtual packages that are > specified in the rpm spec. Just use 'apt-get install virtualPackage' > and it will try to figure out what you mean. Apt understands about individual files but doesn't "publish" that information, except for packages explicitly doing "Provides: /some/path" However if you know the path for any given file you can tell apt to install that and it just works: [root@chip pmatilai]# apt-get install /etc/php.ini Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Selecting php for '/etc/php.ini' The following extra packages will be installed: php (4.3.6-5) php-pear (4.3.6-5) - Panu -
