yum provides in Linux: Find Which Package Contains a File

YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified) is an open source command line, as well as a graphical-based package management tool for RPM-based (RedHat Package Manager) Linux systems.

It allows users and system administrators to easily install, update, remove, or search for software packages on a system. It was developed and released by Seth Vidal under GPL (General Public License) as open source, which means anyone can be permitted to download and access the code to fix bugs and develop custom packages.

Find which package a file belongs to with yum provides

The yum provides command is used to find which package a specific file belongs to. For example, if you would like to know the name of the package that contains /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.

$ yum provides /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

httpd-2.2.3-63.el5.centos.i386 : Apache HTTP Server
Repo : base
Matched from:
Filename : /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

httpd-2.2.3-63.el5.centos.1.i386 : Apache HTTP Server
Repo : updates
Matched from:
Filename : /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

httpd-2.2.3-65.el5.centos.i386 : Apache HTTP Server
Repo : updates
Matched from:
Filename : /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

httpd-2.2.3-53.el5.centos.1.i386 : Apache HTTP Server
Repo : installed
Matched from:
Other : Provides-match: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

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