CentOS Issue: Need to find remote packages for a particular file

[NikkyG]

Frequently, it keeps happening with me all the times, that I forget the remote packages that contains the essential files for the installation of something. I want to search all those files required for installation. Is there any way to search for such files in CentOS?

[Catherine]

I think you can try the following:

yum whatprovides FileName

Kindly let us know if you get some success with this command.

[NikkyG]

Thanks for the help, Catherine. Yes, the command you have provided worked. Can you please provide me some more commands that I can use for several things?

[Macdale]

Hello NikkyG, here are some useful basic Yum commands listed below, that you can use to update, install or remove a package :

Installing a package:

yum install package
Example: yum install apache

Removing a package:

yum remove package
Example: yum remove apache

Updating a package:

yum update package
Example: yum update apache

Searching for a package:

yum search package
Example: yum search apache

Finding info about a package:

yum info package
Example: yum info apache

Listing packages that contains a certain term:

yum list term
Example: yum list apache

Finding what package that provides a particular file:

yum whatprovides filename
Example: yum whatprovides httpd.conf