I came across a rpm vs. dpkg comparison on the web that might 
help:

Identify the package that owns a file
    rpm -qf full-path-to file
    rpm -qf name-of-file-in-local-dir
    dpkg --search any-portion-of-file's-path 

http://www.trestle.com/linux/rpmdeb.html


On Sunday 16 May 2004 11:29 pm, Jon Schewe wrote:
> I've got a debian system setup and I'd like to know what's the
> apt command that will tell me which package a file belongs to.
>  I'm used to rpm, where I can just type 'rpm -qf <file>', and
> that'll tell me what package the file belongs to.  Does apt
> have this capability?


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