As an example, I am looking for a mod_files.sh file which presumably would come with the php-devel package. I guessed that yum would install the mod_files.sh file with the php-devel x86_64 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 package , but the file appears to not to be installed on my filesystem. How do I find out which package installs the specific file I'm looking for where I have not necessarily already locally downloaded the package which may include the file that I'm looking for?
I'm using CentOS 5.
If something big is missing I'll Google it to find the rpm. Otherwise, for a shell script or something similar, I'll just install the file manually.
You go to http://www.rpmfind.net and search for the file.
You'll get results for a lot of different distros and versions, but quite likely Fedora and/or CentOS will pop up too and you'll know the package name to install with yum
This is an old question, but the current answers are incorrect :)
Use yum whatprovides, with the absolute path to the file you want (which may be wildcarded). For example:
sudo yum whatprovides '*bin/grep'
Returns
grep-2.5.1-55.el5.x86_64 : The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities.
Repo : base
Matched from:
Filename : /bin/grep