How to query the package owning the file? (no packahe manger installed)

[chrism at imntv.com (Chris Mauritz)]

Simon Perreault wrote:

>On Friday 15 July 2005 08:05, Prasad Pillarisetti wrote:
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>> How do I find out the package owning a particular file, when no package
>>managers are installed?
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>If RPM is not installed, then no package can own a file since packages do not 
>exist.
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>Maybe you should have answered: Google!
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Indeed.  I was scratching my head wondering why anyone would expect to 
get a "package name" for a file when it was not placed on the file 
system by a package manager.  There's no automated way to determine 
which software installation owns a particular file if you don't have a 
suitable package management system installed.  So, yes, it sounds like a 
trick question or (more likely) an inexperienced person or PHB doing the 
interviewing.

Cheers,

C