||<>|| = What is auto-apt for? = When you want to build a program from source and it fails due to missing headers. Auto-apt can search what package would provide the header files. = Install = {{{ sudo apt-get install auto-apt sudo auto-apt update sudo auto-apt updatedb && sudo auto-apt update-local }}} = Usage = Search for a header file: {{{ auto-apt search [headerfile.h] }}} Example: {{{ auto-apt search Xlib.h }}} {{attachment:IconsPage/tip.png}} You can use it combined with CheckInstall, or you could try using Ubuntu:AutoDeb, which combines the two as well as providing some additional facilities. = Commands = run - Enter auto-apt environment run [command [cmdarg]] update - Retrieve new lists of Contents (available file list) update updatedb - Regenerate lists of Contents (available file list, no download) updatedb update-local - Generate installed file lists update-local merge - Merge lists of Contents merge del - Delete package list del package check - Check which package will provide the filename check [-v] [-f] filename list - List filelist in dbfile list [-v] [-f] search - Search package by filename (grep) search [-v] [-f] pattern debuild - debuild with auto-apt useful to get build-depends: status - Report current environments (auto-apt or not) For some commands, command name with -local suffix, it will use pkgfiles.db, which is created by update-local command, instead of pkgcontents.db ---- CategoryCommandLine