[arch-general] pacman search help needed: howto find package that provides html2ps?

[David C. Rankin]

On 03/08/2010 06:15 PM, Daenyth Blank wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 19:13, David C. Rankin
> <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>>        I have made friends with pacman in most areas, but one are I still don't know
>> is " How to I find the uninstalled package that will provide xxx?"
>>
>> pacman -Ss must just search package names and not the contents. I need to find
>> html2ps for hylafax. Can pacman do this, or do I search abs/aur for this type of
>> request?
>>
> pkgfile from pkgtools does this.
> 

Thank you Daenyth!

	I'll check it out. Before I got your message, I was able to find it in AUR with
a search.  If pkgfile is a cli tool, it's just what I'm looking for.

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