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The appstream system is -taking shape in Debian, and one feature set that is very convenient is -its ability to tell you want package to install to get a given -firmware file. This can be done using apt-file too, but that is for -someone else to blog about. :)

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The appstream system +is taking shape in Debian, and one provided feature is a very +convenient way to tell you which package to install to make a given +firmware file available when the kernel is looking for it. This can +be done using apt-file too, but that is for someone else to blog +about. :)

Here is a small recipe to find the package with a given firmware file, in this example I am looking for ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin, randomly