[arch-general] Repo Filename Search?

[Kevin Monceaux]

DR,

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

> If you're trying to search through your *installed* packages to find out 
> which package owns a particular file on disk, you can use:
>
> pacman -Qo /the/file/name

No, I was trying to search for packages that hadn't been installed yet 
that provided particular files.  One program I was looking for, for 
example, was pdflatex.  I'm currently running CRUX but considering 
switching to Arch.  I'm running Arch under VMware right now.  On CRUX, one 
can:

# prt-get fsearch pdflatex

and it will list all packages that include pdflatex.  That's one bit of 
functionality I'd miss if I switch from CRUX to Arch.  So far on Arch I've 
found pdflatex in extra/tetex and aur/community/texlive-bin, after some 
trial and error.  The google site:www.archlinux.org/packages/files search 
trick posted earlier should have at least found pdflatex in the tetex 
package's file list but didn't.  Are there no file lists for the packages 
in AUR?



Kevin
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