On Sat, 2023-07-01 at 08:37 -0700, stan via users wrote:
> > FYI to install a command you can do this:
> >
> > $ sudo dnf install /usr/bin/xrandr
> > $ sudo dnf install /usr/bin/inxi
> > Etc.
>
> Robert has been using Fedora and on this list for years. I'm not
> sure
> if the above installing commands were his automatic response because
> he didn't say, but it should have been. And if the install command
> failed with no package, he should know to use
> rpm -qf /usr/bin/xrandr or rpm -qf /usr/sbin/xrandr
> to find out which package owns that executable so he can install it.
I had a similar reaction until I checked. It turns out that dnf is
smart enough to determine the package from the executable name:
$ sudo dnf install /usr/bin/xrandr
Last metadata expiration check: 2:57:58 ago on Sat 01 Jul 2023 15:12:20
BST.
Package xrandr-1.5.2-2.fc38.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
From 'man dnf':
dnf install vim
DNF will automatically recognize that vim is not a package
name, but will look up and install a package that provides vim with all the
required dependencies.
Note: Package name match has precedence over package provides
match.
You learn something new every day.
poc
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