Location of the .so files

I am trying to install deb package which contains .h, .so and .a files. After installing the deb package I am unable to find the installed location.

I checked /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib and /lib. I am supposed to install the .so and .a files in /usr/lib from deb package. To solve my problem, I copied the .a files from the extracted .deb to /usr/lib but the .so files are not copying. Please help to solve this problem.

2 Answers

Check out apt-file.

apt-file search horst.so

See documentation at wiki.debian.org

To find which files were installed by a package, use dpkg -L:

dpkg -L $package

if you have the package as a .deb file locally, you can run dpkg on it:

 dpkg --contents $package.deb

So you can find where .so file is located

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