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- How to list files installed by a package ?
- How do you know what package provides a certain (missing) file ?
- How do you know to which package a particular file belongs to ?
- How do you know if a package is installed or not ?
You are searching for a file and wonder what package provides it
A typical example are .so files and .h files pointed out by configurewhen you install something from source. To find those file, you need to install apt-file then run apt-file update to build the database of files-packages associations. Once you do this you can apt-file search any file.
Installing a .deb package and its dependencies
use gdebi, apt-get won't help here.
Automatically install dependencies when compiling from source
auto-apt run ./configure
You have to run auto-apt update and auto-apt update-local first (cache and db generation).
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