[NCLUG] What RPM is this file in?

Jim Ankrum jimj9 at qwest.net
Wed Apr 11 14:00:03 MDT 2001


That is pretty cool. If you need an RPM and aren't using KRUD though,
http://rpmfind.net will get you similar results for a few other distros.
It doesn't find everything you might need but it does ok.

Jim


Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> If you have the package installed, you can easily enough do
> "rpm -qf /bin/ping" to find out what package provides that.  But, if you
> know you need "/usr/sbin/smbd", how do you find out what package it's in?
> A question many of us have had, and until now you kind of had to grep
> through all your package files.
> 
> Try going to:
> 
>    http://community.tummy.com/krudlookup.cgi
> 
> and typing in the name of a file you're looking for...  It emulates a
> system with *ALL* the latest KRUD packages installed.  For example, you can
> ask it what provides "/boot/vmlinux-2.2.17-14", and it will tell you:
> 
>    Package File Name             On KRUD CD       Package Size
>    kernel-2.2.17-14.i386.rpm          1              6.8 MB
>    kernel-2.2.17-14.i586.rpm          1              6.7 MB
>    kernel-2.2.17-14.i686.rpm          1              6.7 MB
> 
> Not bad for an hour's worth of hacking, eh?
> 
> Enjoy,
> Sean
> --
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