DR,
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
If you're trying to search through your *installed* packages to find out
which package owns a particular file on disk, you can use:
pacman -Qo /the/file/name
No, I was trying to search for packages that hadn't been installed yet
that provided particular files. One program I was looking for, for
example, was pdflatex. I'm currently running CRUX but considering
switching to Arch. I'm running Arch under VMware right now. On CRUX, one
can:
# prt-get fsearch pdflatex
and it will list all packages that include pdflatex. That's one bit of
functionality I'd miss if I switch from CRUX to Arch. So far on Arch I've
found pdflatex in extra/tetex and aur/community/texlive-bin, after some
trial and error. The google site:www.archlinux.org/packages/files search
trick posted earlier should have at least found pdflatex in the tetex
package's file list but didn't. Are there no file lists for the packages
in AUR?
Kevin
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