Ubuntu equivalent of Yum's WhatProvides, to find which package provides a file

Question

Fedora\'s yum package management tool has a nice option called whatprovides, which lets you find what package has installed a specific binary or fi

Answer 1

I use dpkg -S filename for that. It can't search for files that are not installed on your system with it, but it's shipped in all dpkg distros by default while apt-file is not.

You also can look that up for files that are not installed on your system using http://packages.ubuntu.com/ website.