In this article I will show you how to find the package belonging to a command (file), for the most popular dpkg and rpm based Linux Distros.
Find out which package a file belongs to, in Debian, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Linux Mint, PuppyOS … with dpkg:
$ dpkg -S /bin/ls
coreutils: /bin/ls
OR:
$ dpkg --search /bin/ls
Note: You can also use dpkg -S $(which ls), but if you have an alias for ls, it will mess the dpkg command up.
Find out which package a file belongs to, in Fedora, CentOS, Mandriva, openSUSE, … with rpm:
$ rpm -qf /bin/ls
coreutils-8.12-2.fc16.x86_64
OR, get only the package name:
$ rpm -qf /bin/ls --queryformat '%{NAME}\n'
coreutils
On openSUSE, you can find out which package a file belongs to, with zypper:
$ zypper what-provides /bin/ls
S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
--+-----------+---------+------------+--------+------------------
i | coreutils | package | 8.14-3.1.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-12.1-Oss
v | coreutils | package | 8.14-3.1.2 | i586 | openSUSE-12.1-Oss