How can i find out, what files a RPM is provding?

[David Hoffman]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:34:16 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie
<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> David:
> 
> Try this and see if it works:
> 
> rpm -q --redhatprovides <file name>
> 
> I think this requires downloading and installing the redhatdb.rpm (cannot remember exactly what the file name is).  This populates a flat database with file names and their associated Red Hat package name that provides the file.  I had to 

James,

See the note earlier from Paul Howarth regarding this. There is a
difference between redhatprovides and whatprovides. With whatprovides,
it gets the information from the known packages that have been
installed on the system, and does not require the database file.

David