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Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 955

Is there a way do find out to which package a file belongs?

If pacman tries to install a package it is normally aware of files beeing already installed and puts out an error message. Is it possible to encounter to which package a file belongs, t.m. which package did install it?

Jessehk

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From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2007-01-16

Posts: 152

Re: Is there a way do find out to which package a file belongs?

pacman -Qo <file>

For example,

$ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/python2.5 is owned by python 2.5.1-5

It's all in the manpage for pacman.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Is there a way do find out to which package a file belongs?

pacman -Qo <full path to file>

Edit: beaten by 1 second!

Last edited by Allan (2008-01-31 12:52:33)

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Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 955

Re: Is there a way do find out to which package a file belongs?

Thank you all!