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doubleslash

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Registered: 2011-08-16

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How to find package owning a certain file?

Hi,
I'm trying to download a source code from git and got the following error message

gpg: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.20: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Clearly it's not able to find the file  "libgcrypt.so.20", so my logic is to find a pacakge that provides that and install it. I tried using the archlinux package database and search for it by keyword but got nothing. Any ideas how I can proceed to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: How to find package owning a certain file?

[Shiv ~ ]
pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.20
/usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.20 is owned by libgcrypt 1.6.1-1

man pacman

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lolilolicon

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Registered: 2009-03-05

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Re: How to find package owning a certain file?

There's also a tool called pkgfile which is more powerful than `pacman -Qo`. Look it up.
In this case, the package is (surprise!) libgcrypt. Sh*t broke probably because you did a partial update/install of some packages, which is generally not recommended. Do `pacman -Syu` often.

Edit: or... if the .so didn't really get bumped recently, it could mean some other weird problem.

Last edited by lolilolicon (2014-02-02 08:46:34)

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