[wplug] Finding an App

[Jonathan S Billings]

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 14:19, Bill Moran wrote:

> find / -name ethereal

I don't suggest actually trying this if your use AFS.

> will search your entire HDD (and any NFS mounted drives as well!) for that
> filename.
> 
> Sure seems like it should be where you looked, though.
> 
> Isn't there a way to query the rpm database as to where it installs files?

If you have the rpmdb-redhat package installed, I believe you can say:

rpm --redhatprovides /usr/sbin/ethereal

and it will tell you what package it is in, even if it isn't installed.


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Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>