On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:42:50AM -0800, nate enlightened us:
> Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> > I've been fighting to get the latest source of pgadmin compiled on Centos
> > 5 64-bit.
> >
> > I obtained gnu-c++ (so it was happy with g++). It then complained about
> > wxWidgets, so I obtained the source for that, compiled and installed, and
> > ./configure for pgadmin saw wxWidgets and was happy with that. Go to
> > make...
> >
> > It complains that some header file is missing. A google search reveals
> > limited answers, but the same couple of searches reveal the wxwidgets
>
> Something I've wondered for a while, is there any site out there that
> allows you to search by filename to find what package a file belongs
> to for a particular distribution? One of the many things I've loved
> about Debian for years is their packages.debian.org site which among
> other things allows exactly that. It's so handy.
>
> Unless yum or some other tool provides this information(I'm not
> aware of any tool that can provide this.
>
> I still refer to packages.debian.org when I'm trying to find what
> package I need for a particular file, despite it being Debian at
> least I can get an idea what the source of the file is and can try
> to track down an equivalent for CentOS/RHEL/Fedora.
>
> And to be clear, I'm not talking about the rpm -q -f <file> command,
> I'm talking about finding package names for files that are NOT
> installed on your system(s). I suppose I could do rpm -q -l -p <package>
> for each and every RPM, and maintain that list, but that'd also
> assume that I have every RPM, which I may not(base distro RPMs
> aside).
>
> nate
Is 'yum provides foo' not good enough?
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Matt Hyclak
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