Ubuntu – How to find the package that contains a given program on Ubuntu

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Frequently I know the name of the command line program that I need but I don't know the name of the package that provides the program. How do I find the name of the package that contains the program that I need? On RPM based systems they have the whatprovides option rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/X11R6/bin/xclock which will find the correct package. Is there anything similar for Debian based systems?

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If the package is installed, you want dpkg -S /path/to/file. If the package isn't installed, then use the apt-file utility (apt-file update; apt-file search /path/to/file).

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Use the cruft package:

cruft is a program to look over the system for anything that shouldn't be there, but is; or for anything that should be there, but isn't.

Ubuntu – Looking for scsitools (specifically scsiinfo) for Fedora / Centos

It seems that sg3_utils package is what you're looking for:

Name        : sg3_utils
Version     : 1.25
Release     : 5.el5
Architecture: x86_64
Size        : 1133460
Packager    : None
Group       : Utilities/System
URL         : http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html
Repository  : base
Summary     : Utils for Linux's SCSI generic driver devices + raw devices
Description :
Collection of Linux utilities for devices that use the SCSI command set.
Includes utilities to copy data based on "dd" syntax and semantics (called
sg_dd, sgp_dd and sgm_dd); check INQUIRY data and VPD pages (sg_inq); check
mode and log pages (sginfo, sg_modes and sg_logs); spin up and down
disks (sg_start); do self tests (sg_senddiag); and various other functions.
See the README, CHANGELOG and COVERAGE files. Requires the linux kernel 2.4
series or later. In the 2.4 series SCSI generic device names (e.g. /dev/sg0)
must be used. In the 2.6 series other device names may be used as
well (e.g. /dev/sda).

# sginfo /dev/sda
INQUIRY response (cmd: 0x12)
----------------------------
Device Type                        0
Vendor:                    ATA     
Product:                   WDC WD2502ABYS-0
Revision level:            02.0

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