Reference

dnf5-provides(8)

Provides Command

NAME

dnf5-provides - Provides Command

SYNOPSIS

dnf5 provides [global options] <package-spec-PFB>...

DESCRIPTION

The provides command in DNF5 finds the packages providing the given <package-spec-PFB>.

EXAMPLES

dnf5 provides tito
Outputs which packages provide the command tito.

dnf5 provides /usr/bin/tito
Outputs which package provides the file /usr/bin/tito

dnf5 provides zless
There is no Provides for zless but a package that contains zless exist.
Outputs the package that provides the file /usr/bin/zless

Note:

New behavior: if one or more packages are not found by provides DNF5 will now return exit code 1 and list all provides that do not match at the end of the output.

dnf5 provides rpm nonexistent_package
Output provides for rpm and inform in stderr that nonexistent_package
did not match any result.

SEE ALSO

dnf5-specs(7), Patterns specification <#specs-misc-ref-label>

Author

See AUTHORS.md in dnf5 source distribution.

Copyright

Contributors to the dnf5 project.