On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 17:35 +0530, Prasad Pillarisetti wrote:
> Guys recently I had this question asked in a technical interview.
>
> How do I find out the package owning a particular file, when no
> package managers are installed?
>
> I am assuimg SRPMs are used to install the software?
>
> Is this actually possible? Install the Linux OS without a package
> manager?
>
> I know "rpm -qf filename" gives the package owning the file.
> But how to get the package name when I don't have any package manager?
>
> Maybe this was a question to rattle me?
>
> --
> Prasad Pillarisetti
> "If everything is coming your way, then you are in the wrong lane"
To find the package that owns a particular file that is installed on
your system, you would do:
rpm -q --whatprovides /full/path/to/file
for example, on CentOS-4 if I do:
rpm -q --whatprovides /bin/bash
I get this as an answer:
bash-3.0-19.2
OR ...
rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/rlm_expr.so
provides this:
freeradius-1.0.1-3.RHEL4
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