Pkgfile

pkgfile is a tool that tells you which package owns a specified file or which files a given package provides.

You can install pkgfile from the official repositories, or pkgfile-git^AUR from the Arch User Repository.

# pacman -S pkgfile

Then update the file database, as root:

# pkgfile --update

Example:

$ pkgfile makepkg     #Search for a package that contains a file named "makepkg".

core/pacman           #Your searched file is in the pacman package from the [core] repository.

Another example:

$ pkgfile --list core/archlinux-keyring     #List all files provided by the archlinux-keyring package from the [core] repository.

core/archlinux-keyring usr/
core/archlinux-keyring usr/share/
core/archlinux-keyring usr/share/pacman/
core/archlinux-keyring usr/share/pacman/keyrings/
core/archlinux-keyring usr/share/pacman/keyrings/archlinux-revoked
core/archlinux-keyring usr/share/pacman/keyrings/archlinux-trusted
core/archlinux-keyring usr/share/pacman/keyrings/archlinux.gpg

"Command not found" hook

pkgfile includes a "command not found" hook that will automatically search the official repositories, if you enter an unrecognized command.

To enable it in all children shells, you need to source the hook from one of your shell initialization files.

• Example for Bash:

~/.bashrc

source /usr/share/doc/pkgfile/command-not-found.bash

• Example for Zsh:

~/.zshrc

source /usr/share/doc/pkgfile/command-not-found.zsh

See also

• Bash#The_"command_not_found"_hook - A section comparing pkgfile and command-not-found^AUR