HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Thu Nov 27 05:13:18 UTC 2008


On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:00:09 -0700
Reg Clemens <reg at dwf.com> wrote:

> How do I find out what RPM package a given file is from?
> I know I knew how to do this at one time, but Ive reread the RPM
> MAN page 3 times and I cant find the right magic.
> 
> In particular, I would like to know what package
> 
> 	/usr/bin/htmlview

rpm -q -f /usr/bin/htmlview

What? You can't see the answer for the 47,621 other options
documented in the same man page? :-).




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