Which package provides a given jar?

Question

How can I determine which apt package I should install to have a certain jar file?

BTW: I'm actually looking to solve

XML parser factory has not been configured correctly: Provider org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl not found

but I wish to find a general solution.

Let's do it by example:

• I miss org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
• so I can use http://search.maven.com and determin that I need xerces-1.4.4.jar
• but in which ubuntu package is that jar located?

Answer 1

Try to install libxerces2-java:

sudo apt-get install libxerces2-java

To actually find the right package, try using the powerful http://packages.ubuntu.com using the query on package content:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=xerces+jar&mode=filename&suite=saucy&arch=any