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Tamás Barta
Asked: 2014-01-22 04:54:32 +0800 CST

How can I determine about a command, that which package provides it, using the command line? [duplicate]

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Let's say, I have a command for which I want to know the source code. For example: unity-webapps-runner. I know which unity-webapps-runner tells me where to find, but how to find out with apt-cache that which package installed the binary, so I can run apt-get source <pkg-name>?

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2 Answers

  1. dpkg has this option. Read same question here

    Do this:

    bash:$ dpkg -S unity-webapps-runner
unity-webapps-service: /usr/bin/unity-webapps-runner

    Then if you want more information use apt-cache

    bash:$ apt-cache showpkg unity-webapps-service
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  2. Best Answer

    Try this command,

    dpkg -S $(which unity-webapps-runner)

    The output of the above command shows 

    unity-webapps-service: /usr/bin/unity-webapps-runner

    So unity-webapps-runner was belongs to unity-webapps-service package.

    Get the source of unity-webapps-service package by running the below command,

    apt-get source unity-webapps-service
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