====== Find packages with filenames ====== Sometimes you want to know which files are included in a package. At other times you want to search for a package containing a file and you only have a filename (e.g. when the installation of software requires dependencies). The solution is simple. ===== Online ===== Online is the site [[http://packages.slackware.com]]. You can search in this official database. Or you can search in an unofficial one: [[http://slakfinder.org/]]. ===== Offline ===== On the Slackware installation medium is a file named ''/slackware/MANIFEST.bz2''. This compressed file contains a list of packages and the corresponding files. Copy it to a location of your choice and unpack it with user@computer:~$ bzip2 -d MANIFEST.bz2 Now you can search in the resulting text file for the wanted information. ====== Sources ====== * Originally written by [[wiki:user:maschinenhans|Hans Mueller]] {{tag>howtos packages search }}