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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Query remote package for provided files
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 22:06:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <88a6d66d-ab7b-ef8c-ee62-b7acbc3ec18c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B0A8E9E8-8058-45D1-9C7D-DD33BC2E83F8@paraboletancza.org>

whiteman808 wrote:
> How can I check what files does provide not installed package in the system? I mean something like apt-file search irssi provided that irssi is not installed. e-file from pfl only performs reverse checks, which file belong to what ebuild
>
>


Have you tried the website? 

https://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php

By the way, you can install pfl if you have not already so that any
files you have are also available to others.  I have it installed here
since I have some not so common files here, Kicad and such. 

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-) 


  reply	other threads:[~2025-06-16  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-16  2:09 [gentoo-user] Query remote package for provided files whiteman808
2025-06-16  3:06 ` Dale [this message]
2025-06-16  3:06 ` Matt Connell

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