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Re:APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and... by hleszek on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:04PM (#35461024)
You know what would be nice?

To do the reverse: I provide a file path and you can determine in which package(s) it is present.

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Re:APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and... by cbsks on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:06PM (#35461043)
dpkg or apt-file can do this from the command line. Or you can use https://packages.ubuntu.com/

https://askubuntu.com/questions/481/how-do-i-find-the-packag...

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Re:APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and... by itsmartapuntocm on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:51PM (#35461563)
DNF as well with “dnf provides <filename>”
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Re:APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and... by oneshtein on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:21AM (#35465325)
On rpm-based systems: `rpm -qf /path/to/file`.

It's very helpful when I stare at a file and thinking, "WTF this file doing there?". These two commands help me immediately: `rpm -qif file` to show description of file package, `rpm -qlf file` to show list of other files in the same package.

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Re:APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and... by loloquwowndueo on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:36AM (#35466553)
dpkg -S /your/path

Have fun :)

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