How to find out what files a package has installed?

xiaweitang · 2010-01-13 23:29:05

Sometime you installed a package, but you don't know the name of the command to run and you don't know the name and location of the configuration files. There are conventions but is there a way to show those information explicitly?

aberkoke · 2010-01-13 23:43:04

You can try, for example

$locate firefox

and you will see all files about firefox.

I think this is better:

 pacman -Ql firefox

Last edited by aberkoke (2010-01-13 23:45:42)

Allan · 2010-01-13 23:45:20

pacman -Ql <pkg>

tomk · 2010-01-13 23:48:31

xiaweitang, please read the pacman man page.

xiaweitang · 2010-01-14 00:03:34

aberkoke wrote:

You can try
$locate
for example. you write
$locate firefox
and you will see all files about firefox.

That's a partial solution. Suppose I installed a package called gtk-vim, but the binary is gvim and I didn't know that. If I use

locate gtk-vim

it will not find "gvim".
Besides, different packages may install files with names identical or partially identical. What I want to find out is what files a specific package installed or removed, or changed, just like the deb package manager in ubuntu.

tomk · 2010-01-14 00:06:21

Yes, locate is the wrong answer here - the right answer is above, and can also be found in the man page that you just read.

ZaQ · 2010-01-14 18:24:14

I think, pacman -Qdt is the thing, you need.

tomk · 2010-01-14 21:17:56

ZaQ - he wants the filelist for an installed package. Allan already gave the right answer above.

Maybe you'd like the read the pacman man page too?

ZaQ · 2010-01-15 13:27:30

tomk wrote:

ZaQ - he wants the filelist for an installed package. Allan already gave the right answer above.
Maybe you'd like the read the pacman man page too?

Maybe.

Or I should improve my english

Sry for the missing post...

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#1 2010-01-13 23:29:05

How to find out what files a package has installed?

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Re: How to find out what files a package has installed?

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Re: How to find out what files a package has installed?

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