Thank you. If I do the rpm -qf thing, I too get the control-center response. I wonder why the whatprovides thing doesn't work? Probably my lack of understanding means I'm feeding it the wrong arguments.
Steve - do you have control-center installed?
Paul
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:39, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
To find which package installed a particular file, the command "rpm -qf <file_with_path>" is what you need. In this case: rpm -qf `which gnomecc` which gives me: control-center-1.4.0.5-10.ximian.2 Etienne On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 11:11, Paul Hands wrote: > Steve, > > Gnomecc is the Gnome Control Center. It's a GUI for configuring many > parts of the Gnome desktop. > > On my machine (SuSE 8.1), it lives /opt/gnome/bin. Interestingly, I > can run gnomecc quite happily from the command line, but I can't find > it with an rpm query either! If I do a general rpm -q -a | grep -i > gnome, I get nothing that looks like gnomecc. OK, it must be provided > as part of another rpm.... > > If I do rpm -q --whatprovides gnomecc, I get :- no package provides > gnomecc > > So now, even though I have it installed and working, I don't know how > it got installed! I'll keep looking and let you know if I find it. > > Paul > > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 18:32, Steven P. Auerbach wrote: > > Paul > > Perhaps you could help me figure out what gnomecc is, and where it > > lives. Several postings in the Evolution data base have mentioned > > it, but it doesn't seem to be on my system. (I'm running Red Hat > > 8.0) I've done rpm -qa and grep'ed on gnome, but there is nothing > > called gnomecc in the list. > > > > Here's what is in the list: > > gnome-applets-2.0.1-6 > > gnome-audio-1.4.0-4 > > gnome-audio-extra-1.4.0-4 > > gnome-desktop-2.0.6-4 > > gnome-games-2.0.3-2 > > gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-22 > > gnome-libs-devel-1.4.1.2.90-22 > > gnome-lokkit-0.50-18 > > gnome-media-2.0.0-9 > > gnome-mime-data-2.0.0-9 > > gnome-panel-2.0.6-9 > > gnome-pilot-0.1.70-1.ximian.1 > > gnome-pilot-devel-0.1.70-1.ximian.1 > > gnome-print-0.37-2.ximian.1 > > gnome-print-devel-0.37-2.ximian.1 > > gnome-python2-1.99.11-8 > > gnome-python2-applet-1.99.11-8 > > gnome-python2-bonobo-1.99.11-8 > > gnome-python2-canvas-1.99.11-8 > > gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-1.99.11-8 > > gnome-session-2.0.5-7 > > gnome-spell-0.5-1.ximian.3 > > gnome-system-monitor-2.0.0-2 > > gnome-terminal-2.0.1-5 > > gnome-user-docs-2.0.0-1 > > gnome-utils-2.0.2-5 > > gnome-vfs-1.0.5-6 > > gnome-vfs2-2.0.2-5 > > gnome-vfs2-extras-0.99.5-1 > > gnome-vfs-devel-1.0.5-6 > > gnome-vfs-extras-0.2.0-3 > > > > Is gnomecc missing in RH 8.0? Has it been replaced by something? > > > > Thanks for any help you can provide. > > > > Steve > > -- > > Steven P. Auerbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > SAIC
