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wherestheph
wherestheph

Reputation: 2597

How do I find which rpm package supplies a file I'm looking for?

As an example, I am looking for a mod_files.sh file which presumably would come with the php-devel package. I guessed that yum would install the mod_files.sh file with the php-devel x86_64 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 package, but the file appears to not to be installed on my filesystem.

How do I find out which package installs a specific file? I'm looking for where I have not necessarily already locally downloaded the package which may include the file that I'm looking for.

I'm using CentOS 5.

Upvotes: 242

Views: 365489

Answers (8)

PKSingh
PKSingh

Reputation: 561

Depending upon whether we know the file path or not we can choose one of the 2 options mentioned below.

  • If we know the path of the file then as per the man page for the RPM command

    QUERY OPTIONS
The general form of an rpm query command is

rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options]

PACKAGE SELECTION OPTIONS:
PACKAGE_NAME
       Query installed package named PACKAGE_NAME.

-f, --file FILE
       Query package owning FILE.

it's pretty straightforward to identify the corresponding RPM package. For example:

[root@e2e-64-147 ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh
less-458-9.el7.x86_64

  • If only the file name is known and the path is not, then we can use the yum command with provides option to identify the corresponding RPM package. For example:

    [root@e2e-64-147 ~]# yum -q provides '*lesspipe.sh*'
less-458-9.el7.x86_64 : A text file browser similar to more, but better
Repo        : base
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh

Upvotes: 0

dj_segfault
dj_segfault

Reputation: 12459

To know the package owning (or providing) an already installed file:

rpm -qf myfilename

Upvotes: 232

Tim M.
Tim M.

Reputation: 155

Using only the rpm utility, this should work in any OS that has rpm:

rpm -q --whatprovides [file name]

Ref. https://www.thegeekdiary.com/how-to-find-which-rpm-package-provides-a-specific-file-or-library-in-rhel-centos/

Upvotes: 5

mati kepa
mati kepa

Reputation: 3241

You can do this alike here but with your package. In my case, it was lsb_release

Run: yum whatprovides lsb_release

Response: 

redhat-lsb-core-4.1-24.el7.i686 : LSB Core module support
Repo        : rhel-7-server-rpms
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/lsb_release

redhat-lsb-core-4.1-24.el7.x86_64 : LSB Core module support
Repo        : rhel-7-server-rpms
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/lsb_release

redhat-lsb-core-4.1-27.el7.i686 : LSB Core module support
Repo        : rhel-7-server-rpms
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/lsb_release

redhat-lsb-core-4.1-27.el7.x86_64 : LSB Core module support
Repo        : rhel-7-server-rpms
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/lsb_release`

Run to install: yum install redhat-lsb-core

The package name SHOULD be without number and system type so yum packager can choose what is best for him.

Upvotes: 0

user93374
user93374

Reputation: 441

The most popular answer is incomplete:

Since this search will generally be performed only for files from installed packages, yum whatprovides is made blisteringly fast by disabling all external repos (the implicit "installed" repo can't be disabled).

yum --disablerepo=* whatprovides <file>

Upvotes: 33

Arash
Arash

Reputation: 639

Well finding the package when you are connected to internet (repository) is easy however when you only have access to RPM packages inside Redhat or Centos DVD (this happens frequently to me when I have to recover a server and I need an application) I recommend using the commands below which is completely independent of internet and repositories. (supposably you have lots of uninstalled packages in a DVD). Let's say you have mounted Package folder in ~/cent_os_dvd and you are looking for a package that provides "semanage" then you can run:

for file in `find ~/cent_os_dvd/ -iname '*.rpm'`;  do rpm -qlp $file |grep '.*bin/semanage';  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "is in";echo $file  ; fi;  done

Upvotes: 4

rjh
rjh

Reputation: 50324

This is an old question, but the current answers are incorrect :)

Use yum whatprovides, with the absolute path to the file you want (which may be wildcarded). For example:

yum whatprovides '*bin/grep'

Returns

grep-2.5.1-55.el5.x86_64 : The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities.
Repo        : base
Matched from:
Filename    : /bin/grep

You may prefer the output and speed of the repoquery tool, available in the yum-utils package.

sudo yum install yum-utils
repoquery --whatprovides '*bin/grep'
grep-0:2.5.1-55.el5.x86_64
grep-0:2.5.1-55.el5.x86_64

repoquery can do other queries such as listing package contents, dependencies, reverse-dependencies, etc.

Upvotes: 292

nos
nos

Reputation: 229344

You go to http://www.rpmfind.net and search for the file.

You'll get results for a lot of different distros and versions, but quite likely Fedora and/or CentOS will pop up too and you'll know the package name to install with yum

Upvotes: 5

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