On Monday 31 January 2005 10:03, James Mckenzie wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: David Hoffman <dhoffman2004@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Jan 31, 2005 8:58 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: How can i find out, what files a RPM is provding? > > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:33:45 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Roger Grosswiler wrote: > > > i want to check, whether i have Tar.pm installed on my system. This > > > must have been happened via yum - so rpm. > > > > > > yum provides is extremly slow on this machine, so i would like to check > > > this with rpm. So how can i find out, whick rpm-package is providing > > > Tar .pm? > > > > Assuming Tar.pm is properly installed in your perl module tree: > > > > $ rpm -qf `find /usr/lib/perl5 -name Tar.pm -print` > > What about: > rpm -q --whatprovides Tar.pm > > -----James' Reply----- > > 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. if you want rpm to query on an rpm package file instead of querying the rpm data base, whether or not the rpm is installed, add the -p option to your query, e.g.: rpm -qpi package-file-name (descriptive info) or rpm -qpl package-file-name (full path names of files in package) or rpm -qplv package-file-name (ls -l like listing of files in package) paul -- Paul Almquist paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
