CoderDan

Sometimes you wonder which package installed a file. There is a simple way to do this on RPM based systems. Unfortunately, I tend to forget it so I will post it here.

# rpm -qf /usr/bin/od
coreutils-8.5-7.fc14.i686

… and to get more info about the package:

[root@iweb ~]# yum info coreutils
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: fedora.mirror.iweb.ca
 * updates: mirror.cc.vt.edu
Installed Packages
Name        : coreutils
Arch        : i686
Version     : 8.5
Release     : 7.fc14
Size        : 12 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : updates
Summary     : A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
License     : GPLv3+
Description : These are the GNU core utilities.  This package is the combination
            : of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.