RPM

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Tue Oct 30 18:48:22 UTC 2007


Karl Larsen wrote:
>    I printed out Maximum RPM in 1997 and I refer to it often. I was told 
> today to use:
> 
>    # rpm -q --whatprovides (complete direction to a file) and it did 
> provide the name of the file that provides /etc/rc.d/init.d/nvideo.
> 
>    Then just now I got to page 51 and there it listed this capability. I 
> have had this capability for 8 years but didn't know it...
> :-)

yum can do the same thing, and has the advantage it will also tell you 
about rpms you don't have installed, but are available in one of your 
configured repos

 > yum whatprovides /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd

<snip>
openssh-server.i386                      4.3p2-4.cern           installed
Matched from:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd
<snip>

Chris




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