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following command:

dpkg  l mc

will produce the following output:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge

| Status=Not/Installed/Config files/Unpacked/Failed config/Half installed

|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst required/X=both problems (Status,Err:

uppercase=bad)

||/ Name Version Description

+++ =============== ================================

ii mc 3.2.1 1 Midnight Commander   A feature rich full scr

 S |   search 

The package containing the file described by  is returned

by this option. Both the package and the location of the file are displayed

in the output. To deviate from our current example, with something a little

more informative, the following command:

dpkg  S whereis

creates the output:

util linux:

/usr/bin/whereis

util linux:

/usr/share/man/man1/whereis.1.gz

providing the information that this program is available in the package called

util linux. Installing that package will provide the whereis program.