Gentoo Linux / Portage : How to know which package provided an installed file

December 3rd, 2009 by Stephane Kattoor

If there’s a file installed on your disk for which you’d like to know what package provided it, you can use the equery command like below :

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roadrunner ~ # equery belongs /etc/init.d/samba [ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/samba in *... ]
net-fs/samba-3.0.37 (/etc/init.d/samba)

equery is part of the gentoolkit package, which provides useful tools to maintain/investigate your gentoo packages.

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roadrunner ~ # equery belongs /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild 
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild in *... ]
app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.5 (/usr/bin/revdep-rebuild)

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  1. Links 04/12/2009: Bologna Moves to OpenOffice.org | Boycott Novell Says:
    December 5th, 2009 at 1:44

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  2. Network Switching Says:
    January 12th, 2010 at 5:05

    Do you know the process of finding what package depends on another? For example x11-apps/ttmkfdir is now masked with xfs, so I was trying to find what package depends on ttmkfdir, and I’m unable to find that. I was assuming the ‘-t’ flag would give it to me, but I’m not finding anything.

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  3. Stephane Kattoor Says:
    January 14th, 2010 at 22:32

    If I understood correctly, you are looking for 

    equery depends ttmkfdir

    Hope this helps !

    Stephane

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