Sometimes is not easy to know name of package which contain an executable
On Debian I use apt-file, on Rocky Linux dnf provides
And with opkg?
I have tried
opkg find '*sdiff*'
but return only packages which contain sdiff in name, I need the package which contain *bin/sdiff file.
How to do?
Did you try the search command?
search <file|regexp> List package providing <file>
Yes for example
opkg search *bin/dig
Return nothing, I need "dig" file, but I dont' know the exact path.
Run which dig ?
Sure it doesn't ship with BusyBox ?
Seems to work as expected:
$ opkg search '*/ip-tiny'
ip-tiny - 6.11.0-r1
Also dig seems to be in bind-dig.
I don't know if opkg can tell you what package in the repository would install a particular file but I happen to have sdiff installed and found the package via:
which sdiff
/usr/bin/sdiff
and
grep "sdiff" /usr/lib/opkg/info/*
/usr/lib/opkg/info/diffutils.list:/usr/bin/sdiff
indicating the package that did install that file is diffutils.
I hope that is some help.
EDIT: Be sure your opkg cache is up to date with opkg update before trying to use opkg tools like find or install.
opkg install busybox
Package busybox (1.36.1-r2) installed in root is up to date.
root@OpenWrt:~# which dig
root@OpenWrt:~#
Like I said above:
Thanks for bind-dig, for opkg search look
root@OpenWrt:~# opkg search '*/ip-tiny'
root@OpenWrt:~#
Did you do opkg update before that?
It is looking like opkg search finds items that are installed.
ip-tiny is a package name so opkg find ip-tiny should find it if your cache is up to date and it is available for your system and it isn't missing due to a build problem or ...
sure i did it
but don't found ip-tiny, but this works
opkg search '*/bin/dig'
bind-dig - 9.20.4-r1
Thanks
Solution found
Thanks to user Dante and others for helping
opkg update
opkg search '*/bin/dig'
bind-dig - 9.20.4-r1