[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]
“This short article describes how you can search for missing
packages with apt-file on Debian and Ubuntu systems. apt-file
allows you to search for a file name, and it gives back the name(s)
of the package(s) containing that file so that you can install the
appropriate package…“I guess you all know this: you try to compile some software
from the sources, and suddenly the compilation stops because it
complains that some file is missing of which you have never heard
before…”