how to find which package contains file?

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Mon Apr 14 18:05:26 PDT 2003


On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 21:03, Erik Steffl wrote:
>    is it possible to find which package contains file?
> 
>    Let's say I know that I need libiconv.so.1 library (just an example), 
> which package do I need to install?

If you have the package and file already installed on your system:

pkg_info -W /path/to/file

Joe

> 
>    TIA
> 
> 	erik
> 
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