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Package name from application name

Given an application name is there some command to determine from what package the application has been installed ? Using RPM ? Using APT ?

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Originally Posted by eldiener (Post 4912922)

Given an application name is there some command to determine from what package the application has been installed ?

I don't know what distro you are running but I assume you are talking about your running system, you should know what packaging your distro is using. To know which package installed it, usually there is a package folder (record) in the /var. In my slackware it looks exactly /var/log/packages/, you can search what it looks like in your system:

Code:

find /var -type d -iname \*package*

In my system to find out which package installed certain application binary is easy. Let us say we want to know what package installed an application called 'minicom' --

Code:

grep -li bin/minicom /var/log/packages/*

and it will return the identity of the package what installed the 'minicom'. Now to find out all (what) files this package installed into the system--

Code:

cat /var/log/packages/minicom*

should list down all what particular package has added into the system.

Hope that helps.

On RPM based systems:

Code:

rpm -qf `which command`

Code:

rpm -qf /path/to/file

On DEB based systems:

Code:

dpkg -S `which command`

Code:

dpkg -S /path/to/file

Quote:

Originally Posted by colucix (Post 4912991)

On RPM based systems:

Code:

rpm -qf `which command`

Code:

rpm -qf /path/to/file

On DEB based systems:

Code:

dpkg -S `which command`

Code:

dpkg -S /path/to/file

Much thanks ! That is what I was looking for.