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How To Search For Missing Packages With apt-file On Debian and Ubuntu This short article describes how you can search for missing packages with apt-file on Debian and Ubuntu systems. apt-file allows you to search for a file name, and it gives back the name(s) of the package(s) containing that file so that you can install the appropriate package.

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Very nice... I've previously used the "Search the contents of packages" feature on http://packages.ubuntu.com/, but this look a lot more convenient