Anyone good with dpkg/apt

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 12:06 pm, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I need to see the list of files in an uninstalled package. The rpm equiv
> would be
>
> rpm -qpl foo.rpm
>
> Anyone know how to do this? Is there anything?
>
> TIA

Install apt-file, which will build a searchable index of all files in the APT 
repositories.  apt-file update will update the cache.  apt-file search 
filename will tell you all packages that have that filename.

If you don't want that local cache, then search packages.debian.org, which has 
a search interface for all files in the distribution.
-N