how to find a file in an rpm?

abd_bela · 01-10-2003, 11:53 AM

hi,
Often I want to find the rpm which contains a given file.
If the package is installed, there is no problem rpm -qa --filesbypkg | grep file

but if the package is not installed how to find the package ?

thanks for help

bela

abd_bela · 01-10-2003, 11:55 AM

another one

To install the gaim-applet needs

libpanel_applet.so.0 is needed by gaim-applet-0.59.8-1

where is it please

bela

wdingus · 01-10-2003, 10:24 PM

Something like this what you mean?

# rpm -qf /bin/ls
fileutils-4.1-10

# rpm -ql fileutils-4.1-10
/bin/chgrp
/bin/chmod
/bin/chown
/bin/cp
/bin/dd
...

abd_bela · 01-11-2003, 01:41 AM

not exactly,
suppose the ls command is not installed, and i want to search the rpm which contains it ( I suppose not know fileutils ) the goal is precisely to find it.

thanks
bela

wdingus · 01-11-2003, 12:21 PM

OK.. So you want command "xyz" but the RPM containing that command is *not* installed and you want to know which RPM will give you command "xyz"? No easy way to do that I suppose... Do the "rpm -qf" on a system which does have the RPM installed I guess.

acid_kewpie · 01-11-2003, 01:05 PM

hmm, some slightly odd suggestions... rpm itself doesn't have a feature to do what you want but you can do something such as:

Code:

[chris@trevor chris]$ rpm2cpio wxGTK-gl-2.3.2-1.i386.rpm | cpio --list
./usr/lib/libwx_gtk_gl-2.3.a
./usr/lib/libwx_gtk_gl-2.3.so
./usr/lib/libwx_gtk_gl-2.3.so.1
./usr/lib/libwx_gtk_gl-2.3.so.1.0.0
116 blocks
[chris@trevor chris]$

BUT how you find what you actually need to know is to go to rpmfind.net and enter the file that you require, and you'll be given a list of pacakges that contains it. either then download the right one there, or install the equivalent package from your distro cd's.

bulliver · 01-11-2003, 01:13 PM

Sorry, didn't see that you were given the same advice right above...

<redundant>
Dude, go to www.rpmfind.net, type the name of the file you need in the search box, and if that file is in any RPM available it will tell you which one. (and let you download it...)
</redundant>

acid_kewpie · 01-11-2003, 01:18 PM

bulliver, it'd be dumb to give wrong advice, but not correct advice...