[CentOS] How to query the package owning the file? (no packahe manger installed)

Hilliard, Jay Jay.Hilliard at disney.com
Fri Jul 15 17:37:41 UTC 2005


> To find the package that owns a particular file that is installed on
> your system, you would do:
> 
> rpm -q --whatprovides /full/path/to/file
> 
> for example, on CentOS-4 if I do:
> 
> rpm -q --whatprovides /bin/bash
> 
> I get this as an answer:
> 
> bash-3.0-19.2

rpm -qf /path/to/file

will give you the same results

-Jay



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