Finding .so's within RPMs

X11 · 02-04-2002, 10:40 PM

Just wondering if there's a way find .so (I think there libraries) files within RPMs.

This would make it easier for me than going onto www.rpmfind.net and searching the for all the required dependencies and downloading them all.

acid_kewpie · 02-05-2002, 06:01 AM

if you've got urpmf installed on yuor system (used by mandrake a lot) then you can search your cd's library easily...

[root@trevor chris]# urpmf netconfig
pump:/usr/sbin/netconfig

if not then i don't *think* there's an easier way todo it than rpmfind.net. i think it's a really really easy way to track down files. you can always install them from cd after you've found it tho...

ryanstrayer · 02-05-2002, 03:04 PM

If you're good with grep you can do something similiar to:

rpm -qal | grep "/*.so"

and that will also list everything starting with *.so ... you may have to add a few more expressions in there to get rid of the directory names it may pick up. But that will do the same thing...

Become one with the pipe command..