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Fedora's yum package management tool has a nice option called whatprovides, which lets you find what package has installed a specific binary or file. What is the equivalent command on Ubuntu?
For example, say I'd like to find what package provided /usr/bin/mysqladmin. I know it should be something like mysql-server*. I've read that apt-cache search blah is a similar command, but running apt-cache search /usr/bin/mysqladmin returns nothing. Is there a better command?
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1. Using apt-file to find the package that provides a file (for repository packages, either installed or not installed) apt-file indexes the contents of all packages available in your repositories, and allows you to search for files in all these packages.
Installing apt-file: You can easily find the name of the package which provides a specific file/executable on Ubuntu using apt-file. apt-file is available in the official package repository of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
In Ubuntu and Debian systems, you can search for any package just by a keyword related to its name or description through the apt-cache search. The output returns you with a list of packages matching your searched keyword. Once you find the exact package name, you can then use it with the apt install for installation.
To show what files are in a package, use the rpm command. If you have the file name, you can turn this around and find the related package. The output will provide the package and its version. To just see the package name, use the –queryformat option.
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 If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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