From: "W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:16:08 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124673368.26613.11.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4309188B.40901@planet.nl>
man equery doesnt specifically say, but I suspect that along with other
tools that do this like qpkg, they only work on the installed packages.
I dont think gentoo can do this for packages not installed on the
system. I usually end up googling ...
BillK
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 02:12 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Rennie deGraaf schreef:
> > What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular
> > file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For
...
>
> equery belongs equery
> [ Searching for file(s) equery in *... ]
> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5 (/usr/bin/equery)
> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5
> (/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5/equery)
>
> :-)
>
> HTH,
> Holly
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-21 23:55 [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides" Rennie deGraaf
2005-08-22 0:12 ` Holly Bostick
2005-08-22 1:16 ` W.Kenworthy [this message]
2005-08-22 2:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2005-08-22 3:07 ` W.Kenworthy
2005-08-22 3:36 ` Nick Rout
2005-08-22 9:25 ` Holly Bostick
2005-08-22 11:43 ` Graham Murray
2005-08-22 14:21 ` A. Khattri
2005-08-22 2:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Brett I. Holcomb
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