On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:03:30 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- David ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- David ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.
