[solved] How do I find out which package offers some obscure utility?

ngoonee · 2010-07-05 05:09:42

I've been searching for the 'consolehelper' app, it seems from google that its basically a Fedora-based thingy which allows user authorization via PAM (windows Vista style) but is not the same as gksu. It seems to (in Fedora) belong to the pam_console, while belonging to the usermode package in Ubuntu. How do I find out which package (if any) provides it in Arch?[

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sand_man · 2010-07-05 05:39:16

This also says that it is provided by pam_console http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/consolehelper8.html
But there doesn't seem to be a pam_console (or consolehelper) package available for Arch at all. Maybe a PKGBUILD needs to be written making use of the Redhat rpm.

ngoonee · 2010-07-05 07:08:15

Perhaps. I'm unsure what the advantage of that would be over simply using sudo (which is another method allowed by the program I'm using, but not recommended compared to PAM).

Will leave unsolved for now in case someone knows.

jac · 2010-07-05 11:36:00

About finding which package would have a binary, you can use pkgfile from the pkgtools package. It seems to prove there's nothing in the official repos, unfortunately.
You may want to change the title to reflect you're new problem

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Mektub · 2010-07-05 11:45:43

How do I find out which package (if any) provides it in Arch?

I use pkgfile -R filename.

For example, 'pkgfile -R ls' outputs:

community/plan9port
community/9base
community/epic4
core/coreutils

Mektub

ngoonee · 2010-07-05 15:46:52

@jac and Mektub

Fantastic, didn't know pkgfile had such an option. Thanks lots. For the other problem its not a matter for this thread.

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