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How do I determine which package owns a (missing) file?

April 26, 2017determine file MISSING owns package

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How do I determine which package owns a (missing) file?

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Both rpm and yum are capable of mapping a file path to the RPM package which owns it. However rpm needs to have the package installed to perform the query otherwise it won’t be known to the local rpm database. To perform an rpm query on the local rpm database use the ‘f’ query option.