Pfl

On Fedora or CentOS, on way to find out what package providing a file we can use yum whatprovides [FILENAME] or dnf whatprovides [FILENAME] on a DNF-aware system. # dnf whatprovides tmux Last metadata expiration check: 2:33:06 ago on Wed 09 Sep 2020 09:45:07 PM AEST. tmux-3.0a-2.fc32.x86_64 : A terminal multiplexer Repo : @System Matched from: Provide : tmux = 3.0a-2.fc32 tmux-3.0a-2.fc32.x86_64 : A terminal multiplexer Repo : fedora Matched from: Provide : tmux = 3.0a-2.fc32 I really need this similar tool on Gentoo, and it looks like the emerge command doesn’t have this function built it. Fortunately, there is a utility called e-file (provided by pfl package) which kinda provides this whatprovides option as in yum and dnf. ...