Re: How to identify an lib file

Mark Gordon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Organization Not very often
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:43:34 +0200
Jan Ries <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> exists a way to determine from which "package" a specific file does
> come from? In this special case I'm looking for the origin of an file
> called:/lib/libc.so.6
> 
> But I'd like to now it generical, just in case.

# emerge gentoolkit
# qpkg -f /lib/libc.so.6

You can also do a lot of other useful stuff with the tools in gentools.

HTH.
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