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From: ivan ivanov <grobokopatel@list.ru>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo package database
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:43:53 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5010F539.8040404@list.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120725170758.GA22066@dethkomp>

Hello, list. I am interesting how to find the package that contains the 
file that i want to have in my system.
Let's suppose that latex tells me: File upgreek.sty  not found. To solve 
this i need to install dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra. But, if i do not 
know this, i have to search the appropriate package. On debian i can 
easily do this by visiting official database 
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages . On archlinux i can use "pkgfile 
upgreek.sty" that searches through NOT INSTALLED packages.
I found site http://www.portagefilelist.de/ that does this job for 
gentoo. But, as i suppose, it is third party project.

I cannot believe that such great project as gentoo does not have 
OFFICIAL database, that allows to search package by the file name.

So, the question is: how to find the name of NOT installed package that 
provides  needed file?


  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-26  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-25 16:55 [gentoo-user] Use Flags Silvio Siefke
2012-07-25 17:07 ` Yohan Pereira
2012-07-26  7:43   ` ivan ivanov [this message]
2012-07-26  7:57     ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo package database Alan McKinnon
2012-07-26  8:13       ` Marc Joliet
2012-07-26 18:55         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-07-26  8:15       ` ivan ivanov
2012-07-27 18:59         ` Mick
2012-07-26  6:42 ` [gentoo-user] Use Flags Alan McKinnon
2012-07-26 13:22   ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-07-26 18:53     ` Alan McKinnon

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