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xzhu
Asked: 2011-05-05 02:13:40 +0800 CST

How do I look up which package brought a particular command?

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For example, there is a command "send_arp", I'm not sure which package should I uninstall if I want to remove it.

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  1. Best Answer

    You can determine the file name for a command line utility using the which command. For example, we can look up the path of the ls command:

    $ which ls
/bin/ls

    With that information, you can find out which package owns the file using dpkg:

    $ dpkg -S /bin/ls
coreutils: /bin/ls

    That tells us that ls is provided by the coreutils package.

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  2. In addition to James's post you can also do this on-line: send-arp. That way you can find not only the package but also all the dependencies (if there are any): cluster-agents

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