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