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geckos

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Registered: 2010-12-02

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[SOLVED]How to know what uninstalled packge owns a file?

When I want to know what package owns X file i do pacman -Qo X, but for this the file need to exist.

When I face a libXYZ.so: No such file or directory, how can I know what package provides that file? I was search for something like pacman -So libXYZ.so, or something..

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Last edited by geckos (2011-11-18 12:18:40)

eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

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Re: [SOLVED]How to know what uninstalled packge owns a file?

i dont think you can.

if a package you installed is complaining on a missing library, this is a missing dependeny not listed in its PKGBUILD, file a bug where appropiate. (aka, package belongs to the repos: file a bug in flyspray, AUR? write a comment in the appropiate aur page).

if you are trying to build your own software. you should read the instructions on how to compile this project and find out how said library is packaged in arch. (pacman -Ss name-of-library)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

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Re: [SOLVED]How to know what uninstalled packge owns a file?

Install pkgtools and then run

pkgfile libXYZ.so

geckos

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Registered: 2010-12-02

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Re: [SOLVED]How to know what uninstalled packge owns a file?

i dont think you can.

if a package you installed is complaining on a missing library, this is a missing dependeny not listed in its PKGBUILD, file a bug where appropiate. (aka, package belongs to the repos: file a bug in flyspray, AUR? write a comment in the appropiate aur page).

if you are trying to build your own software. you should read the instructions on how to compile this project and find out how said library is packaged in arch. (pacman -Ss name-of-library)

I don't thinks is pacman fault, I have done stupid things with pacman
Any way, this ugly shell chain have done the job

pacman -Qk zsnes
pacman -Qi zsnes | grep Depends | cut -f2 -d: | tr -s ' ' | tr -s ' ' '\n' | while read P; do pacman -Qi $P >> installed && pacman -Qk $P >> missing; done

I THINK that missing packages and missing files will be printed out. Any way I can check installed and missing files for some weird thigs that happends when you to break your system . We can do this recursivelly, but I don't this is necessary in my case.

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

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Re: [SOLVED]How to know what uninstalled packge owns a file?

I think you're overcomplicating the issue tremendously:

pacman -Qkq

The above will show all missing files. Run this as root -- as you will otherwise get silent permission denied error on reading and they'll show up as missing.

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geckos

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Registered: 2010-12-02

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Re: [SOLVED]How to know what uninstalled packge owns a file?

I think you're overcomplicating the issue tremendously:

pacman -Qkq

The above will show all missing files. Run this as root -- as you will otherwise get silent permission denied error on reading and they'll show up as missing.

So simple , thanks!

stqn

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Re: [SOLVED]How to know what uninstalled packge owns a file?

Please mark as solved.