 | | | How to query the package owning the file? (no package manger installed) | How to query the package owning the file? (no package manger installed) 2005-07-15 - By Will Yardley
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 05:39:57PM +0530, Truejack wrote:
> I had this question asked in a technical interview.
>
> How do I find out the package owning a particular file, when no
> package managers are installed?
If they're talking about a Redhat / RPM based distribution, perhaps they
want you to say something like "grep for the filename in
/var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS"?
> Is this actually possible? Install the Linux OS without a package
> manager?
Depends what you mean by install. You could easily install RHEL via
kickstart or system imager without directly using a package manager,
though keeping packages up to date might be difficult.
There are Linux distributions which don't use (or require) binary
packages. I will spare you the "Linux is a kernel not an OS..." talk,
but there's no "Linux OS" in the sense you're using it.
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