apt-file list cannot find exact string

Jaunty is no longer supported so I suggest you upgrade to at least Lucid as Karmic support dies next month too.

You can find the files with:

dpkg -L bc

Yup, "dpkg -L" solves the problem with "bc". Thanks.

BTW, "dpkg -L" requires the package to be listed to be already installed in the system. Therefore, is suppose "bc" is not installed in my system, "dpkg -L" will not work. In this case, is there a way to tell "apt-file list" to list the content of the package having exactly the name "bc"?

Thank you.

Not sure there dude, maybe someone else can chip in

Maybe try option
--fixed-string | -F
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/maverick/en/man1/apt-file.1.html

Or try GUI method.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=bc

Hi Sam!

--fixed-string does not work.

The GUI method although works gives me the following warning:
"Your keyword was too generic, for optimizing reasons some results might have been suppressed.
Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords."

In other words, I bet apt-file does not understand what it means to search for an exact string. How to tell this to the maintainer of apt-file? "aptitude show apt-file" only returns a generic e-mail address Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>.

Thanks.

Thank you for the information :-)

Thanks Samantha (aka Sam), that solved my question.