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schallstrom

Member

Registered: 2007-08-01

Posts: 11

How to find the package containing a certain file?

I would like to know which package is containing the file 'glxgears'.

But as I am often in the situation that I know the name of a file I need, but not which package it belongs to, I would rather like to know how to find this out with pacman or some other tool. On Debian I would use apt-file.

I skim read the wiki page for pacman but did not find the right command there.

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: How to find the package containing a certain file?

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4824?his … e%20search

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

schallstrom

Member

Registered: 2007-08-01

Posts: 11

Re: How to find the package containing a certain file?

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4824?his … e%20search

Thanks for the link. But that is pretty disappointing. So how am I supposed to find out what package glxgears belongs to?

lucke

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: How to find the package containing a certain file?

/usr/bin/glxgears is owned by mesa 7.0.1-1

schallstrom

Member

Registered: 2007-08-01

Posts: 11

Re: How to find the package containing a certain file?

/usr/bin/glxgears is owned by mesa 7.0.1-1

Thanks!