Missing files: How can I find out which RPM to download?

[Matt McKnight]

If an install fails because there is a particular file missing, how
can I find out which rpm must be downloaded to resolve the dependency?
'rpmfind.net' seems to find an rpm for an individual file, but I'm
looking for the major rpm that a single file belongs to. I know how to
find it once the rpm is installed. I need to know to find the rpm
BEFORE it is installed.

Thanks, in advance!

Matt

[Art Werschulz]

Hi.

Matt McKnight <mmck...@cfl.rr.com> writes:

If I understand your problem correctly, the solution is to use yum
instead of rpm. The command
# yum -y install blivit
will install blivit, along with all its prerequisites.

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[Matt McKnight]

And 'blivit' being the missing filename?

[des...@verizon.net]

Matt McKnight <mmck...@cfl.rr.com> writes:

To find the name of the package that contains a file do:

yum provides blivit

You'll find that yum complains, it wants you to be a bit
more specific. For example, if blivit is the name of an
executable, it wants you to help it out like this:

yum provides '*bin/blivit'

You should not be using RPMFIND. At most add Fedora repositories to
your redhat installation.

[unruh]

And under mandriva urpmf nameoffile
I suppose you could install urpm onto redhat.

[des...@verizon.net]

unruh <un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> writes:

If I recall correctly it refused to run outside a Mandriva environment.
Of course it could be fooled but it wouldn't know what's already
in the yum database.

As someone who migrated from Mandriva to Fedora I think the Fedora
repositories are just as good.

Redhat repositories aren't quite as complete but adding Fedora
fills the gaps.