Pacman query - find a package containing a file [SOLVED 4 years ago]

I spent 10 min in google trying to find out which arch package has the oggdec program. I finally found it (vorbis-tools), but I was unable to do it with pacman. I happened across this page for another distro and luckily, the arch package was named the same as the Debian package.
How can I use pacman to find the vorbis-tool package knowing that I want to search for oggdec? I read the pacman wiki article but didn't find what I'm looking for.
Last edited by graysky (2013-11-22 10:49:51)

graysky wrote:Same solution today as 4 years ago.
Not exactly.
Allan wrote:There is no feature in pacman to do that. Install "pkgtools" and use the pkgfile script.
dagelf wrote:
# pacman -Ss pkg
... Find the package. It's not called pkgfile.
I think dagelf meant it's not called pkgtools.
$ sudo pacman -S pkgtools
error: target not found: pkgtools
They are in the AUR now https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pkgtools/ and pkgfile is a separate package.

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