[TriLUG] resolving a dependency

[Tanner Lovelace]

Michael Thompson said the following on 4/13/04 10:05 AM:

> IIRC, if you use yum:
> 
> yum provides <file_name>
> 
> should return a list of packages that contain <file_name>.
> 
> If anyone knows the equivalent in apt, I'd love to hear about it!

I don't know about apt, but with urpmi you can do

urpmf <filename>

and it will list all packages that have that in it (listing
full location and searching on that in any part of the filename).

You can also do

urpmq <filename>

to not do quite an exhaustive search (i.e. urpmq only searchs
package names instead of full filenames).

Cheers,
Tanner
P.S. If anyone has been trying to get urpmi setup on Mandrake Linux
10.0 community you've probably noticed that they've been reorganizing
the mirrors and that they've all been down.  They're starting to
get back up now and I was able to configure urpmi for my 10.0 box this
morning using the following commands (as root, each command on line line):

urpmi.addmedia main 
ftp://raven.cslab.vt.edu/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS 
with ../base/hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia main-src 
ftp://raven.cslab.vt.edu/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/SRPMS with 
../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.src.cz

urpmi.addmedia contrib 
ftp://raven.cslab.vt.edu/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/contrib/i586 with 
../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz

urpmi.addmedia contrib-src 
ftp://raven.cslab.vt.edu/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/contrib/SRPMS with 
../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.src.cz

urpmi.addmedia --update update_source 
ftp://raven.cslab.vt.edu/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.0/RPMS with 
../base/hdlist.cz

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