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ytj

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Registered: 2010-11-14

Posts: 24

[SOLVED]How to find which package a specific cmd or file belongs to?

For example, I want to know which package that owns "convert", I can do this:

$ pacman -Qo convert
/usr/bin/convert is owned by imagemagick 6.7.1.6-1

However, what if I didn't install imagemagick package?

In Ubuntu, if a command doesn't exist, system will tell you what package do you need.
Is there any way to do it in Arch?

Further more, can we find a package according to a file? Cite a case:

$ pacman -Qo /lib/cpp
/lib/cpp is owned by gcc 4.6.1-2

It could be better if it works with AUR.

Last edited by ytj (2011-08-17 12:49:17)

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: [SOLVED]How to find which package a specific cmd or file belongs to?

Try "pkgfile" from the "pkgtools" package. It does not work with AUR packages, however.

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jaco

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From: Toulouse, France

Registered: 2011-03-17

Posts: 149

Re: [SOLVED]How to find which package a specific cmd or file belongs to?

pkgfile, in the pkgtools package :

% pkgfile convert
extra/imagemagick

% pkgfile /lib/cpp
local/gcc-multilib

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,543

Re: [SOLVED]How to find which package a specific cmd or file belongs to?

too slow

Last edited by skunktrader (2011-08-17 12:49:37)

ytj

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Registered: 2010-11-14

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED]How to find which package a specific cmd or file belongs to?

Thanks to all for this quick replies.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED]How to find which package a specific cmd or file belongs to?

In Ubuntu, if a command doesn't exist, system will tell you what package do you need.
Is there any way to do it in Arch?

# pkgfile includes a "command not found" hook for both zsh and bash.
# This will automatically run pkgfile whenever you run a command
# which the shell cannot find. Set CMD_SEARCH_ENABLED to 1 to
# enable this feature, or 0 to disable.
#
# Caveats
# Bash: requires bash >= 4.0
CMD_SEARCH_ENABLED=1

[karol@black ~]$ bsdiff

bsdiff may be found in the following packages:
community/bsdiff (4.3-6) : /usr/bin/bsdiff