In RPM based distros you can issue the command
rpm -qf /usr/bin/dig
and it will return the installation package name
I don’t know if this is the ‘proper’ way to do it but it works:
dpkg-query -S dig | grep /usr/bin/dig dnsutils: /usr/bin/dig
Ubuntu equivalent to rpm -qf /path/and/file
Posted in GNU/Linux.
– May 6, 2009
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Just found your page, and I am enjoying it so far.. Just wanted to note, using dpkg, you can specify the path to the file to find the package that provides it;
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/dig
dnsutils: /usr/bin/dig
or
$ dpkg -S `which dig`
dnsutils: /usr/bin/dig
Same results, just a little less to type.