I am looking for a way to find options and commands. Many are listed in man pages but are not on my system. For example I was told to find the xxd hex viewer in ‘vim-common’. How can I search for programs like ‘xxd’ in packages? Say I wanted to install ‘xxd’. Are there options using dnf or rpm that would help me find that it is in the ‘vim-common’ package? I am wanting to find several programs but can’t quite at this moment remember them individually. has anyone ran into this?
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sudo dnf repoquery whatprovides /usr/bin/xxd
as long as you know that path is you can search for it using whatprovides.
repoquery and also be abrieviated with rq
dnf reference here
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If it is a command you are looking for, you can use dnf provides subcommand to drop /usr/bin/ part and search by using only the command name:
$ sudo dnf provides xxd
[sudo] password for ersen:
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vim-common-2:8.2.3404-1.fc35.x86_64 : The common files needed by any version of the VIM editor
Repo : fedora
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/bin/xxd
vim-common-2:8.2.4232-1.fc35.x86_64 : The common files needed by any version of the VIM editor
Repo : @System
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/bin/xxd
vim-common-2:8.2.4232-1.fc35.x86_64 : The common files needed by any version of the VIM editor
Repo : updates
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/bin/xxd
It is explained in the Provides Command section:
DNF assumes that the <provide-spec> is a system command,
prepends it with /usr/bin/, /usr/sbin/ prefixes (one at a
time) and does the file provides search again. For legacy
reasons (packages that didn’t do UsrMove) also /bin and
/sbin prefixes are being searched:
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