cannot find required binary 'mkfs.msdos'

Dave Cohen · 2008-09-30 04:58:32

Hey there!

I'm new to Arch Linux. How can I install mkfs.msdos?

In general, how can I find the answer to a problem like this? Is there some way to ask pacman which package contains mkfs.msdos?

Many thanks if you can help,

-Dave

AD28 · 2008-09-30 05:09:28

dosfstools probably has it. There might be a better way of doing it, but I just tried pacman -Ss on some keywords until I ran across dosfstools from pacman -Ss dos.

fukawi2 · 2008-09-30 06:12:40

There's a package in AUR called pkginfo (I think that's the one) that allows you to search NON-installed packages to find which package owns a particular file (eg, mkfs.msdos)

Dave Cohen · 2008-09-30 09:01:28

Hey thanks for the suggestions. dosfstools did the trick.

I tried pkginfo. It installed but will not run:

[dave@starbuck ~]$ pkginfo --help
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/libglade2.rb:11:in `require': no such file to load -- gtk2 (LoadError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/libglade2.rb:11
        from /usr/sbin/pkginfo.rb:8:in `require'
        from /usr/sbin/pkginfo.rb:8

Allan · 2008-09-30 09:09:49

fukawi2 got confused... This thread is what you are looking for http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50129

fukawi2 · 2008-09-30 23:33:57

Whoops, my bad. thanks Allan

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#1 2008-09-30 04:58:32

cannot find required binary 'mkfs.msdos'

#2 2008-09-30 05:09:28

Re: cannot find required binary 'mkfs.msdos'

#3 2008-09-30 06:12:40

Re: cannot find required binary 'mkfs.msdos'

#4 2008-09-30 09:01:28

Re: cannot find required binary 'mkfs.msdos'

#5 2008-09-30 09:09:49

Re: cannot find required binary 'mkfs.msdos'

#6 2008-09-30 23:33:57

Re: cannot find required binary 'mkfs.msdos'

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