Yast2 Control Center->Install Packages->Search for Packages->Provides [type
name of file in the field] will search all the rpms that come with the distro
and also all that you have installed on the system
On Friday 24 October 2003 01:57 am, you wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Bob Stia wrote:
> > How do I find out what package a file/driver?? is in? All rpm's.
> > SuSE 8.2, kde3.1.4
> >
> > Examples:
> > libgimp-1.2.so.0
> > libgimpui-1.2.so.0
>
> For RPMs that you have, and if you have the space to blow, copy them all
> to the hard drive. Then, search them with something like
> for file in * ; do
> rpm -qlp $file | grep -q search_term && echo $file
> done
>
> or, go to rpmfind.net or freshrpms.net and see what you can search on. I
> know rpmfind.net lets you search for RPMs containing a particular file.
>
> or, ask a friendly geek. I have
>
> /usr/lib/libgimp-1.2.so.0
> /usr/lib/libgimp-1.2.so.0.0.3
> /usr/lib/libgimpui-1.2.so.0
> /usr/lib/libgimpui-1.2.so.0.0.3
>
> (among others) in gimp-1.2.3-9.i386.rpm . It sucks that SANE ('Standard
> Apple Numerical Environment'? Ain't acronym overloading fun?) wants you
> to install Gimp.
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