LKBEN11041: Howto know to which package a certain file belongs with dpkg on debian
Symptom
You have a file and need to know the package which installed it. Also works on ubuntu, kubuntu, knoppix, ...
Cause
none
Solution
To get the information you use dpkg with the -S parameter.
dpkg -S </path/to/the/file>
e.g.:
dpkg -S xsltproc
xsltproc: /usr/share/doc/xsltproc/TODO
xsltproc: /usr/share/doc/xsltproc/README
xsltproc: /usr/bin/xsltproc
xsltproc: /usr/share/doc/xsltproc/copyright
xsltproc: /usr/share/doc/xsltproc/FEATURES.gz
xsltproc: /usr/share/doc/xsltproc/changelog.Debian.gz
xsltproc: /usr/share/man/man1/xsltproc.1.gz
xsltproc: /usr/share/doc/xsltproc/changelog.gz
xsltproc: /usr/share/doc/xsltproc/NEWS.gz
xsltproc: /usr/share/doc/xsltproc/AUTHORS
xsltproc: /usr/share/doc/xsltproc
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.