rpm deps.

rengland at europa.com rengland at europa.com
Fri Sep 2 22:49:21 UTC 2005


> Philip Moller wrote:
>
>> Strong wrote:
>>
>>> when i need to install a package, owning a file, how i can find the
>>> package name? How can i find where it is? Is there an engine for this
>>> in
>>> FC, beside yum?
>>>
>>>
>> I do not no what you mean exactly, but yum installs all packages.
>>
>> To understand package names, try :
>> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/sn-software-management-concepts.html#sn-package-names
>>
>>
>> Then you can use the rpm command.
>> Try in console:
>> man rpm
>>
>> Ex.
>> rpm -qi packagename     # To get info about an installed package.
>> rpm -qa    # To see all installed packages on the computer (long list)
>> rpm -ql  packagename    # To see where the packagefiles are installed
>>
> Try this also:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/sn-software-management-tools.html
>
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If you know where the file lives on the system you can use rpm -qf

E.g.

$ whence make$
/usr/bin/make

$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/make
make-3.79.1-17






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