Re: iso: info on determining in what packages a command might be found?

Larry,

The first thing you want to do is install the rpmdb-redhat rpm for your 
system.  After doing so, you can issue a command such as:

rpm -q --redhatprovides /usr/bin/compress

which on Red Hat Advanced Server returns:

ncompress-4.2.4-24

James

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"Larry W. Virden" <[email protected]>
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08/04/2003 02:40 PM

 
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        Subject:        iso: info on determining in what packages a command might be found?


I'm working on a project to port an application from sparc solaris to 
intel
redhat linux.

One of the shell commands that make up a part of this application invokes
the command 'compress' on solaris.  I know there are comperable commands 
like
gzip or bzip2 - but since the application is going to continue to run on
both platforms, I need to invoke compress on linux.

To do that, I need to _find_ compress.

What resources are available to 'look up' to see what red hat package 
contains
compress - or any other command, for that matter?
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