What provides aptdcon for Ubuntu 16.04? Which package do I install?

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How do I install the aptdcon command to script aptitude package installation?

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score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 07 '18 at 01:24

I'm fortunate enough to have installed it at some point, and could use dpkg -S and which to quickly find this.

$ which aptdcon
/usr/bin/aptdcon
$ dpkg -S $(which aptdcon)
aptdaemon: /usr/bin/aptdcon

If someone knows how to use apt or aptitude to accomplish the same thing, please chime in.

Update: Apparently I can install the apt-file package and run apt-file update then apt-file search aptdcon to achieve the same result.

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