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#1 2010-06-02 18:51:46
- EVRAMP
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pacman -Qo on commands [SOLVED]
Hello,
I've always used pacman -Qo to find out what package owns a file. It was searching my PATH first to look if such executable exists, e.g.: pacman -Qo pidgin gave me result /usr/bin/pidgin is owned by pidgin 2.7.1-1. But this is not working anymore for me, I must give a full path as argument for pacman to see result: pacman -Qo /usr/bin/pidgin.
I know i can use `which pidgin` to get full path, but I think it's a regression. Anyone noticed the same?
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#2 2010-06-02 19:17:13
- Daenyth
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Re: pacman -Qo on commands [SOLVED]
This feature isn't actually in a released version of pacman yet. Did you have pacman-git installed?
You can also use pkgfile -b name, which will also find it even if it's not installed.
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#3 2010-06-02 21:09:33
- EVRAMP
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Re: pacman -Qo on commands [SOLVED]
No, i have not pacman-git installed, I just thought it's something that was forgotten during development, because it was working some time ago. I have some free time now, so I may look at pacman's code 
Thanks for pkgfile -b, it works well. Marking as solved.
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#4 2010-06-02 21:57:43
- Allan
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Re: pacman -Qo on commands [SOLVED]
That never was a feature in the past. The git version does contain a patch that enables this.
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