How can i find out, what files a RPM is provding?

Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 12:32:41 UTC 2005


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:16:05 +0100, Joachim Backes
<backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:08 +0100, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i want to check, whether i have Tar.pm installed on my system. This must
> > have been happened via yum - so rpm.
> >
> > yum provides is extremly slow on this machine, so i would like to check
> > this with rpm. So how can i find out, whick rpm-package is providing Tar
> > .pm?
> 
> rpm -qf $(which tar)

Actually, as he wanted to find the owner of Tar.pm, rather than tar itself...

rpm -qf $(locate Tar.pm)


Dave...




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