Ubuntu Equivalent of Yum's Whatprovides, to Find Which Package Provides a File

Ubuntu equivalent of Yum's WhatProvides, to find which package provides a file

I believe apt-file will give you what you want.

$ apt-file update
$ apt-file list mysqladmin
kmysqladmin: /usr/bin/kmysqladmin

$ apt-file search mysqladmin
autoconf-archive: /usr/share/aclocal/ac_prog_mysqladmin.m4
autoconf-archive: /usr/share/autoconf-archive/html/ac_prog_mysqladmin.html
bash-completion: /etc/bash_completion.d/mysqladmin
kmysqladmin: /usr/bin/kmysqladmin

$ apt-file search mysqladmin
mysql-admin: /usr/share/mysql-gui/administrator/mysqladmin_health.xml
mysql-admin: /usr/share/mysql-gui/administrator/mysqladmin_startup_variables_description.dtd
mysql-admin: /usr/share/mysql-gui/administrator/mysqladmin_startup_variables_description.xml
mysql-admin: /usr/share/mysql-gui/administrator/mysqladmin_status_variables.xml
mysql-admin: /usr/share/mysql-gui/administrator/mysqladmin_system_variables.xml
mysql-client-5.1: /usr/bin/mysqladmin
mysql-client-5.1: /usr/share/man/man1/mysqladmin.1.gz
mysql-cluster-client-5.1: /usr/bin/mysqladmin
mysql-cluster-client-5.1: /usr/share/man/man1/mysqladmin.1.gz
mysql-testsuite: /usr/lib/mysql-testsuite/r/mysqladmin.result
mysql-testsuite: /usr/lib/mysql-testsuite/t/mysqladmin.test

How to list the contents of a package using YUM?

There is a package called yum-utils that builds on YUM and contains a tool called repoquery that can do this.

$ repoquery --help | grep -E "list\ files" 
  -l, --list            list files in this package/group

Combined into one example:

$ repoquery -l time
/usr/bin/time
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/README
/usr/share/info/time.info.gz

On at least one RH system, with rpm v4.8.0, yum v3.2.29, and repoquery v0.0.11, repoquery -l rpm prints nothing.

If you are having this issue, try adding the --installed flag: repoquery --installed -l rpm.

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DNF Update:

To use dnf instead of yum-utils, use the following command:

$ dnf repoquery -l time
/usr/bin/time
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/README
/usr/share/info/time.info.gz

which libs are a header file belongs to

Use the package content search of your distribution, in this case you can find it here.

If you cannot find the filename through that search, it means there is no debian package providing it.

Bash script - determine vendor and install system (apt-get, yum etc)

You don't really need to check for vendor as they may decide to change packaging system (unlikely but conceptually, you would have to ensure that for each distro you test for, you try the right package manager command). All you have to do is test for the installation itself:

  YUM_CMD=$(which yum)
  APT_GET_CMD=$(which apt-get)
  OTHER_CMD=$(which <other installer>)

and then possibly sort them in your preference order:

 if [[ ! -z $YUM_CMD ]]; then
    yum install $YUM_PACKAGE_NAME
 elif [[ ! -z $APT_GET_CMD ]]; then
    apt-get $DEB_PACKAGE_NAME
 elif [[ ! -z $OTHER_CMD ]]; then
    $OTHER_CMD <proper arguments>
 else
    echo "error can't install package $PACKAGE"
    exit 1;
 fi

you can take a look at how gentoo (or framework similar to yocto or openembedded) provide approach to even get the source code (with wget) and build from scratch if you want a failsafe script.

Can yum tell me which of my repositories provide a particular package?

yum list packagename

That will show from which repository the package is in the third column of the output.

For already installed packages, that won't work, as the third column shows just installed. In that case you can do e.g. rpm -qi packagename, typically the Vendor, Packager and Build Host tags will give an indication to which repository the package belongs. Also it's quite common for some repo symbol being appended to the package version number.

Check RPM dependencies

In fact that's not a one but four different questions :).

*) First you can quickly list a downloaded package's dependencies/requirements by using the following commands:

$ rpm -qp mypackage.rpm --provides
$ rpm -qp mypackage.rpm --requires

*) Second, you can use yum utility in order to satisfy these (somewhat cryptic) dependencies automatically (assuming that all your repositories are set up correctly, and all the dependencies are available):

$ sudo yum install mypackage.rpm

*) Third, there are several RPM search resources, some of them already suggested above. I'd like to list another one, just for the reference - pkgs.org.

*) Fourth, there is an additional popular repository for RHEL5 and RHEL6 distros - EPEL. Note that it's not supported by Red Hat.

Hope my answer(s) will help.

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