On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 17:35 +0530, Prasad Pillarisetti wrote: > 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? > > -- > Prasad Pillarisetti > "If everything is coming your way, then you are in the wrong lane" 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 OR ... rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/rlm_expr.so provides this: freeradius-1.0.1-3.RHEL4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050715/fd4f19b8/attachment-0004.sig>