how to find which package certain command belongs to on centos?
- by hugemeow
for example i can easily find locate command belongs to mlocate.i386 package.
yum search locate
mlocate.i386 : An utility for finding files by name
[mirror@home /]$ rpm -qa | grep locate
mlocate-0.15-1.el5.1
yum search updatedb
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, protectbase
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
=========================================== Matched: updatedb ===========================================
mlocate.i386 : An utility for finding files by name
but it's not so easy to find which package free command belongs to:
yum search free // this command just returns too much informationy
rpm -qa | grep free
freetype-2.2.1-31.el5_8.1 // obviously not the package by which free command is installed
so is there any convinent way to know which package a specific command belongs to on linux? for example centos or some other distributions:)
