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madman420
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 Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:23 am Post subject: Find which package owns a file |
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I'm trying to find which package owns a file and qpkg -f /path/file keeps popping up in websearches, but the qpkg installed on my system seems only to support features related to installing binary packages and returns an error.
How do I find which package a particular file belongs to on a fairly modern Gentoo system?
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MotivatedTea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:28 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | | equery belongs /path/file |
That will search for all packages that own the file. Unless there were conflicts during the install, files are normally owned by a single package. In that case, it's faster to do:
| Code: | | equery belongs -e /path/file |
which is exactly the same, except that it stops as soon as it finds a match. See "man equery". |
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Mike Hunt
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| Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:12 am Post subject: |
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... or for a really speedy way, emerge app-portage/portage-utils and run
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