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george.e.sullivan@saic.com

2005-08-30, 5:50 pm

How can I tell which CD was used to install a file/package in Linux?
For example, in SGI Irix I can do:

versions long | grep smake
(part of the output is the package it is in)

next I do:

showprods -F | grep dev.sw.make (that is the package)
and part of its response includes:

Irix 6.5.23 Installation Tools and Overlays 1-of-3.

So I know I can go get smake off Disk 3 of the Irix
6.5.23 Inst. Tools and Overlays.

How can I do that in Linux?

Thanks to all for sharing your valuable knowlege
and ideas.

Markku Kolkka

2005-08-30, 8:46 pm

george.e.sullivan@saic.com wrote:

> How can I tell which CD was used to install a file/package in Linux?
> For example, in SGI Irix I can do:
>
> versions long | grep smake
> (part of the output is the package it is in)


In Red Hat, Fedora and other RPM based distros, do
rpm -qf /path/to/file
to see the name of the package used to install the file.

> next I do:
>
> showprods -F | grep dev.sw.make (that is the package)


In Fedora, you can use the "whichcd.py" program from the comps-extras
package to see which install CD contains the package.
/usr/share/comps-extras/whichcd.py packagename

Other distros may have different tools.

--
Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka@iki.fi

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