Re: What provides

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 03:48, J. A. Landamore wrote:
> I am a SPARC Solaris admin who has had the management of a few RH PCs dropped on 
> him after a security scare, hence the naivity of this question.  How do I find 
> out which package provides a file?  I've looked quickly at the documentation but 
> all I can find is rpm -q --whatprovides <x>  This doesn't work if the source 
> package isn't on the system.  We did a minimal install and the user now wants  
> another couple of packages added.  Getting those packages is no problem, but 
> they won't install because of dependancy problems.  It appears that I need to 
> interrogate the main RH site that contains all the packages, how do I do that?

If you're using a recent version of Red Hat (something in the 7.x
series), why not just sign up for the Red Hat Network, and then use
'up2date somepackage'?  That will download somepackage, and any other
packages that it depends on.  There's also an 'up2date --whatprovides
[some capability]', if you'd prefer to fetch the rpms manually.
	Greg