track an application back to a package to remove [SOLVED]

graysky · 2009-05-23 12:18:24

I have several application installed that I'd like to remove. I have no idea which package brought them to my system. Is there a way I can search within a package for a keyword? For example:

Gnome Applications>Sound & Video>
-Dragonplayer
-JuK
-Kscd

Last edited by graysky (2009-05-23 15:54:30)

Allan · 2009-05-23 12:21:50

"pacman -Qo <file>" to tell you what package a file belongs to.

For items in your menu, grep through /usr/share/applications/*.desktop for the application name and then look further into that file to find the binary name.

Edit: looks like kdemultimedia maybe...

qubit · 2009-05-23 12:25:09

Or you can use "which <commandName>" to find the file.

Last edited by qubit (2009-05-23 12:28:00)

Army · 2009-05-23 12:30:34

If you know the name of the binary, you could do it like this

pacman -Qo `which firefox`

Replace firefox by your binary

karol · 2009-05-23 12:55:42

I have a reverse-and-opposite question: I have uninstalled a couple pkgs and now an app I need went missing. How do I find out which package is it in?
The app in question was xdpyinfo from xorg-utils IIRC. Is there an easy way to query some Arch / pacman-related db or do I have to google it? Use 'locate' on my local ABS db?
It's even harder when I have never had it installed - I know the app's name, but not the package's. I know what I need, but not how to get it :-)

Allan · 2009-05-23 12:58:20

pkgfile from the pkgtools package will do that for you

karol · 2009-05-23 14:08:38

Thanks Allan, you're my hero!

Why do pkgtools need tar and don't list it as a dep? Am I missing sth?
'pacman -S pkgtools' installed only pkgtools.
'pkgfile --update' failed for every group (core, extra etc.) w/

Unable to extract core.files.tar.gz.
Done

Done?!

'pacman -S tar' fixed it, but as pacman relies on libarchive w/ bsdtar ...

Garns · 2009-05-23 15:44:07

In general all packages in the base group are assumed to be installed and thus not listed explicitely as dependendencies.

graysky · 2009-05-23 15:53:48

Thanks for the replies, all. kdemultimedia was to blame (just nuked k3b).

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track an application back to a package to remove [SOLVED]

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Re: track an application back to a package to remove [SOLVED]

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