If you are on an Ubuntu host and need to determine from which package a file originated, the ‘dpkg’ utility has this ability.
For example, if you need to know which package the ‘mkpasswd’ binary came from:
$ which mkpasswd /usr/bin/mkpasswd $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/mkpasswd whois: /usr/bin/mkpasswd
Which tell us it came from the ‘whois’ package.
And if you then wanted to see all the files that were created by the ‘whois’ package:
$ dpkg -L whois /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/whois /usr/share/doc/whois/README /usr/share/doc/whois/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/whois/copyright /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man5 /usr/share/man/man5/whois.conf.5.gz /usr/share/man/man1 /usr/share/man/man1/whois.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mkpasswd.1.gz /usr/bin /usr/bin/whois /usr/bin/mkpasswd
REFERENCES
https://linux.die.net/man/1/dpkg (man page)
https://askubuntu.com/questions/481/how-do-i-find-the-package-that-provides-a-file
NOTES
upgrading a single package using apt
apt install --only-upgrade <pkgname>