[SOLVED]How to know what uninstalled packge owns a file?

Question

When I want to know what package owns X file i do pacman -Qo X, but for this the file need to exist.
When I face a libXYZ.so: No such file or directory, how can I know what package provides that file? I was search for something like pacman -So libXYZ.so, or something..
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Last edited by geckos (2011-11-18 12:18:40)

Answer 1

eldragon wrote:
i dont think you can.
if a package you installed is complaining on a missing library, this is a missing dependeny not listed in its PKGBUILD, file a bug where appropiate. (aka, package belongs to the repos: file a bug in flyspray, AUR? write a comment in the appropiate aur page).
if you are trying to build your own software. you should read the instructions on how to compile this project and find out how said library is packaged in arch. (pacman -Ss name-of-library)
I don't thinks is pacman fault, I have done stupid things with pacman
Any way, this ugly shell chain have done the job
pacman -Qk zsnes
pacman -Qi zsnes | grep Depends | cut -f2 -d: | tr -s ' ' | tr -s ' ' '\n' | while read P; do pacman -Qi $P >> installed && pacman -Qk $P >> missing; done
I THINK that missing packages and missing files will be printed out. Any way I can check installed and missing files for some weird thigs that happends when you to break your system . We can do this recursivelly, but I don't this is necessary in my case.