[CentOS] How to query the package owning the file? (no packahe manger installed)
Chris Mauritz
chrism at imntv.com
Fri Jul 15 12:32:47 UTC 2005
Simon Perreault wrote:
>On Friday 15 July 2005 08:05, Prasad Pillarisetti wrote:
>
>
>> How do I find out the package owning a particular file, when no package
>>managers are installed?
>>
>>
>
>If RPM is not installed, then no package can own a file since packages do not
>exist.
>
>Maybe you should have answered: Google!
>
>
Indeed. I was scratching my head wondering why anyone would expect to
get a "package name" for a file when it was not placed on the file
system by a package manager. There's no automated way to determine
which software installation owns a particular file if you don't have a
suitable package management system installed. So, yes, it sounds like a
trick question or (more likely) an inexperienced person or PHB doing the
interviewing.
Cheers,
C
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