[SOLVED] How to find which package holds a file?

snack · 2010-02-09 10:48:54

I noticed on my system a program which I didn't install explicitly (BTW, it is palimpsest). I couldn't find to which package it belongs: how can I do it?
Thanks

Last edited by snack (2010-02-09 10:56:28)

Allan · 2010-02-09 10:52:14

pkgfile from the pkgtools package.

snack · 2010-02-09 10:55:57

Great! I didn't know pkgfile, it's awesome.
Thank you, Allan!

Vi0L0 · 2010-02-09 12:50:29

or...
pacman -Qo file
;P

snack · 2010-02-09 13:24:49

Vi0L0 wrote:

or...
pacman -Qo file
;P

Right. My fault, I serched in the man page but didn' find it. Thank you, Vi0l0

bernarcher · 2010-02-09 13:27:38

Vi0L0 wrote:

or...
pacman -Qo file
;P

Not quite. pacman -Qo works only for files already installed. And you need to know their proper path (either relative or absolute).

pkgfile on the other hand looks up in its own packages database. So it works independently of the file being present. You need to keep the database current, of course, using pkgfile -u as root user.

Usage examples:

bp:~$ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/pkgfile
/usr/bin/pkgfile is owned by pkgtools 17-1
bp:~$ pacman -Qo pkgfile
error: failed to read file 'pkgfile': No such file or directory
bp:~$ pkgfile pkgfile
community/pkgtools

bp:~$ which evince
which: no evince in (/home/bp/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/java/bin:/opt/java/jre/bin:/usr/bin/perlbin/site:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/bin/perlbin/core:/opt/qt/bin:/home/bp/neo)
bp:~$ PM -Qo evince
error: failed to read file 'evince': No such file or directory
bp:~$ PM -Qo /usr/bin/evince
error: failed to read file '/usr/bin/evince': No such file or directory
bp:~$ pkgfile evince
extra/evince

hashken · 2014-10-11 07:41:30

Atleast in the latest version of pacman, you don't need to specify proper path to find a file.

$ pacman -Qo which
/usr/bin/which is owned by which 2.20-7

x33a · 2014-10-11 08:00:56

@ hashken, that's only for the files present in the $PATH. Any other files, you'll need to specify the full path.

Edit: Damnit, didn't notice the thread date.

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jasonwryan · 2014-10-11 08:10:02

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[SOLVED] How to find which package holds a file?

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