Does logger(1) command belong to util-linux? it is not shown in https://manpages.debian.org/testing/util-linux/index.html, but in https://manpages.debian.org/testing/bsdutils/logger.1.en.html.
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It's part of util-linux, but Debian has packaged it in the bsdutils package. There's a pile of other packages that are also compiled from the util-linux source package, apart from util-linux and bsdutils.
You can see the (installed) binary package a file belongs to with dpkg -S:
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/logger bsdutils: /usr/bin/logger apt-cache showsrc package should show the corresponding source package, but I just looked at the online package search; the source package is mentioned in the side bar.
- Are the packages listed in packages.debian.org/source/buster/util-linux subsets of util-linux?Ben– Ben2021-04-01 00:48:08 +00:00Commented Apr 1, 2021 at 0:48
- @Ben, subsets of the upstream util-linux, pretty much, yes. They probably split the tools in multiple packages so that you don't have to e.g. install fdisk if you don't want to. So the binary package "util-linux" is also a subset of the source package "util-linux". I'm not so sure why they've bothered with the split between bsdutils and util-linux (the binary package), since they're both marked as Essential anyway, so you can't leave either out.ilkkachu– ilkkachu2021-04-01 08:37:17 +00:00Commented Apr 1, 2021 at 8:37
You can use apt-file to get the package name providing logger:
$ which logger /usr/bin/logger $ apt-file search /usr/bin/logger bsdutils: /usr/bin/logger loggerhead: /usr/bin/loggerhead-serve From the output bsdutils provide logger command.
To install apt-file:
sudo apt install apt-file sudo apt-file update 