Fwd: How can i find out, what files a RPM is provding?

From: David Hoffman (dhoffman2004_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/31/05

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    On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:03:30 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie
    <jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net> wrote:
    > Don't you have to install an additional .rpm to get this functionality? I had to, just in case the .rpm was not installed on my system. Details are in the archive on installation of the appropriate files.
    >

    I've never heard that. The query function is a standard function of
    RPM. If you have RPM installed (and you should) then you should be
    able to perform any queries of your RPM packages.

    Try rpm -? for additional help.

    rpm -q = query mode
    --whatprovides is an argument to the query mode that tells RPM to look
    at it's own data and tell you which packages provided a particular
    file.

    For example, I want to know what package I installed that provided me
    with libmysqlclient.so.10:

    rpm -q --whatprovides libmysqlclient.so.10

    Then it gives me back an answer:
    MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0

    So any file that is installed from an RPM package can be queried this
    way to let you know which package installed the file.

    I didn't have to add any additional packages to be able to do this
    query -- or at least none that I intentionally added. 

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