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From: ivan ivanov <grobokopatel@××××.ru>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo package database
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:45:38
Message-Id: 5010F539.8040404@list.ru
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags by Yohan Pereira
1 Hello, list. I am interesting how to find the package that contains the
2 file that i want to have in my system.
3 Let's suppose that latex tells me: File upgreek.sty not found. To solve
4 this i need to install dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra. But, if i do not
5 know this, i have to search the appropriate package. On debian i can
6 easily do this by visiting official database
7 http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages . On archlinux i can use "pkgfile
8 upgreek.sty" that searches through NOT INSTALLED packages.
9 I found site http://www.portagefilelist.de/ that does this job for
10 gentoo. But, as i suppose, it is third party project.
11
12 I cannot believe that such great project as gentoo does not have
13 OFFICIAL database, that allows to search package by the file name.
14
15 So, the question is: how to find the name of NOT installed package that
16 provides needed file?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo package database Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>