How do I find which rpm package supplies a file I m looking for

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As an example  I am looking for a mod files sh file which presumably would come with the php-devel package  I guessed that yum would install the mod files sh file with the php-devel x86 64 5 1 6-23 2 el5 3 package  but the file appears to not to be installed on my filesystem   How do I find out which package installs a specific file  I m looking for where I have not necessarily already locally downloaded the package which may include the file that I m looking for   I m using CentOS 5

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To know the package owning  or providing  an already installed file   rpm -qf myfilename

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You go to http   www rpmfind net and search for the file   You ll get results for a lot of different distros and versions  but quite likely Fedora and or CentOS will pop up too and you ll know the package name to install with yum

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You can do this alike here but with your package  In my case  it was lsb release  Run  yum whatprovides lsb release  Response    redhat-lsb-core-4 1-24 el7 i686   LSB Core module support Repo          rhel-7-server-rpms Matched from  Filename       usr bin lsb release  redhat-lsb-core-4 1-24 el7 x86 64   LSB Core module support Repo          rhel-7-server-rpms Matched from  Filename       usr bin lsb release  redhat-lsb-core-4 1-27 el7 i686   LSB Core module support Repo          rhel-7-server-rpms Matched from  Filename       usr bin lsb release  redhat-lsb-core-4 1-27 el7 x86 64   LSB Core module support Repo          rhel-7-server-rpms Matched from  Filename       usr bin lsb release    Run to install  yum install redhat-lsb-core   The package name SHOULD be without number and system type so yum packager can choose what is best for him

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Well finding the package when you are connected to internet  repository  is easy however when you only have access to RPM packages inside Redhat or Centos DVD  this happens frequently to me when I have to recover a server and I need an application  I recommend using the commands below which is completely independent of internet and repositories   supposably you have lots of uninstalled packages in a DVD    Let s say you have mounted Package folder in   cent os dvd and you are looking for a package that provides  semanage  then you can run   for file in  find   cent os dvd  -iname    rpm     do rpm -qlp  file  grep    bin semanage    if      -eq 0    then echo  is in  echo  file    fi   done

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This is an old question  but the current answers are incorrect     Use yum whatprovides  with the absolute path to the file you want  which may be wildcarded   For example   yum whatprovides   bin grep    Returns  grep-2 5 1-55 el5 x86 64   The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities  Repo          base Matched from  Filename       bin grep   You may prefer the output and speed of the repoquery tool  available in the yum-utils package   sudo yum install yum-utils repoquery --whatprovides   bin grep  grep-0 2 5 1-55 el5 x86 64 grep-0 2 5 1-55 el5 x86 64   repoquery can do other queries such as listing package contents  dependencies  reverse-dependencies  etc

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Using only the rpm utility  this should work in any OS that has rpm   rpm -q --whatprovides  file name    Ref  https   www thegeekdiary com how-to-find-which-rpm-package-provides-a-specific-file-or-library-in-rhel-centos

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The most popular answer is incomplete   Since this search will generally be performed only for files from installed packages  yum whatprovides is made blisteringly fast by disabling all external repos  the implicit  installed  repo can t be disabled    yum --disablerepo   whatprovides  lt file gt

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