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I find searching for a package installed files very useful, as to locate the eventual configuration, templates, assets … dpkg -L packagename | grep doc On De

I find searching for a package installed files very useful, as to locate the eventual configuration, templates, assets … dpkg -L packagename | grep doc On Debian for instance. Or even finding out which package installed a specific file with apt-file.

mhitza 5y ago
For those using dnf dnf repoquery -l packagename To list the files within a package. dnf whatprovides "**/bin/executable" To find what package provides a certain file. Definitely very useful when trying to build packages from source and not sure in what packages the reported missing libs/headers are located.
- ape4 5y ago
  And the most obvious dnf search <something>
ttyprintk 5y ago
You could dpkg-query -S if apt-files is not installed.