Guys recently I had this question asked in a technical interview.

 

How do I find out the package owning a particular file, when no package managers are installed?

 

I am assuimg SRPMs are used to install the software?

 

Is this actually possible? Install the Linux OS without a package manager?

 

I know "rpm -qf filename" gives the package owning the file.

But how to get the package name when I don't have any package manager?

 

Maybe this was a question to rattle me?

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