Questions tagged [apt-file]

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What is apt-file update?

I was following these instructions and I have installed apt-file along with some other packages using: sudo apt-get install gnupg pbuilder ubuntu-dev-tools bzr-builddeb apt-file And now every time I startup my computer I get this notice: So I…
user364819
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Are apt-file and apt-cache part of apt?

Is apt-file part of apt ? I have apt installed by default, but no apt-file . How about apt-cache ? I don't remember whether mine was installed by default or me.
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apt-file regex: escaping a dot

I want to find all packages which provide a shared object containing "ssl" in the file name. The apt-file manpage says: --regexp | -x Treat pattern as a (perl) regular expression. See perlreref(1) for details. Without this option, pattern is treated…
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apt-file no longer finds or lists most of the content since Ubuntu 19.10 eoan

Update 2: This seems to be a upstream packaging issue with empty Contents-amd64.gz files in the repository. Therefore I reported a bug in Launchpad . I'm a heavy user of apt-file . Most of the file I use it to find out about packages I need to…
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apt-file regex: find multiple packages at once using or

I'd like to search multiple packages at one using a regexp connecting pattern with logical or | . Assuming the two files /usr/lib/apache2/modules/httpd.exp and /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily exist: $ sudo dpkg -S /usr/lib/apache2/modules/httpd.exp…
Kalle Richter
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apt-file equivalent to search for source files

I find the apt-file utility very comfortable to find the package that delivers a given file. If I wanted to find the package that delivered /bin/bash I would simply type apt-file find /bin/bash and get a list of packages that contain that file. Now…
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How do I find the package providing an alias?

Using apt-file I am able to find the packages providing certain executables like this for example: sudo apt-file search {/bin,/sbin,/usr/bin/,/usr/sbin}/wget Well actually: sudo apt-file search {/bin,/sbin,/usr/bin/,/usr/sbin}/wget | grep "/wget$"…
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Where are the database files stored for apt-file?

I want to know where the database files searched by apt-file are stored. apt-file search /usr/bin/lshw-gtk But I don't see any files shown by strace look like apt-file database files. Why is it so? I see it says the apt-file files are stored at…
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How do I list package contents using apt-file?

Sometimes it's necessary to see what's inside a package which was not installed. Normally I use apt-file for this purpose. At most times this works fine, but in some cases I can't retrieve any information about the package contents using apt-file,…
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apt-file update

When I try and update my files using the command apt-file update in the terminal it starts to do so, until I get to a certain point then I get the following message: curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 401 Authorization Required Download of…
Leo Tobias
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Listing all packages installing into a specific directory

How to search for all packages installing files into a specific directory. E.g. I want to list all packages which are writing files into the /etc/apparmor.d directory.
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Clear apt-file cache

How do I clear the cache created by running apt-file update ? Also, is there a way to see how much space the cache is currently using?
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Whole File System is not getting open in Ubuntu 22.04

file system is only loading Most Of the time when I try to open the file system , it does not get open and only try to load it till I turn off the computer or restart the computer. I should mention it that this problem started to occur since when I…
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E: Unable to locate package libpystring-dev

Context and attempt: I am trying to build Blender within an Ubuntu (20.04) WSL2 terminal. I completed the 'Basic Setup' build instructions, but running the ./blender/build_files/build_environment/install_deps.sh command in the 'Advanced Setup'…
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