[Techtalk] finding libs not installed from packages

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Monday 17 November 2003 09:06, Carla Schroder wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out a way to search a system for libs installed
> from sources. The idea is to clean up a mixed system-one with both
> package-built and source-built programs. And use various tricky hacks
> to insert the source-built libs into the package database, either RPM
> or .deb.

With rpm, wouldn't the -f option help?

$ rpm -q -f /usr/lib/libBLT.so
blt-2.4y-167

$ rpm -q -f /usr/local/lib/installwatch.so
file /usr/local/lib/installwatch.so is not owned by any package

Not sure what the equivalent is with deb's.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

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