How to know which RPM has a file?

Chris Hoelscher mohoel at telocity.com
Sun Oct 20 22:30:43 CDT 2002


On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 13:14, Gerald Combs wrote:
> On 20 Oct 2002, Chris Hoelscher wrote:
> 
> > I know how to tell what files are in an RPM package, but when I try
> > loading Opera RPM on my RH 7.3, it complains that libXm.so is needed. 
> > How can I determine what RPM provides that?  I've gone to RPMFIND and
> > such and searching for 'libXm' provides a number of 'libxml-etc'
> > pacakges, but trying a couple of them does not seem to satisfy.
> > 
> > Any ideas?  Tricks?
> 
> 
>     rpm -qf /path/to/file
> 
> 
If the file was installed on my system, I wouldn't be having a problem. What I 
need to figure out is how to know what package I need to go get that
will provide that file 'libXm.so'.....  

Thanks again....
Chris.




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