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mhitza
on Nov 23, 2021
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An intro to finding things in Linux
For those using dnf
dnf repoquery -l packagename
To list the files within a package.
dnf whatprovides "**/bin/executable"
To find what package provides a certain file. Definitely very useful when trying to build packages from source and not sure in what packages the reported missing libs/headers are located.
ape4
on Nov 23, 2021
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And the most obvious
dnf search <something>
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