Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

Try equery. On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Rennie deGraaf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For example, I need a program called "foobar", but don'

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

man equery doesnt specifically say, but I suspect that along with other tools that do this like qpkg, they only work on the installed packages. I dont think gentoo can do this for packages not installed on the system. I usually end up googling ... BillK On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 02:12 +0200, Holly

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

Rennie deGraaf schreef: > What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular > file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For > example, I need a program called "foobar", but don't know what package > provides it. Under Fedora, I'd use "yum provides fooba

[gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For example, I need a program called "foobar", but don't know what package provides it. Under Fedora, I'd use "yum