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lol, no :)
first of all, it only searches for occurrences in already installed packages and is more or less a
grep -l xxx /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list. So you can't use it in order to determine which package to install, for that you use https://packages.debian.org or apt-file instead.Secondly, what you search for isn't relative to anything (wtf):