Where Do I Come From?

Mon, 10 Dec 2007

wheredoicomefrom is a (potentially useful) tool for anyone using a debian-like system (such as Ubuntu). You tell it a file, and it tells you what package (if any) was responsible for putting the file there. If it isn't installed by any packages, then it tells you so. It is a pretty simple application, it just reads through all the files in /var/lib/dpkg/info to see which package installed it. But, I can actually imagine this being useful.

Get the public domain ruby source.

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Why not use standard

dpkg -S file

instead?
ivan
1 day after story
Because when I looked at the manpage for dpkg I didn't notice it there (you have to admit it has heaps of options :)
Andy
1 day after story
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