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I've come from Fedora and am trying out Arch Linux.

I was wondering if the packager 'pacman' contains functionality like that provided by 'yum whatprovides':

provides or whatprovides
              Is  used  to  find out which package provides some feature or file. Just use a specific name or a file-
              glob-syntax wildcards to list the packages available or installed that provide that feature or file.
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    Not sure if you still use Arch, but you might consider changing the accepted answer to one of the other two answers since this is now built in to pacman.
    – NotTheDr01ds
    Mar 5, 2022 at 19:52

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pacman -F file_name for Pacman v5.2.1 - libalpm v12.0.1

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    Don’t forget to run pacman -Fy as root prior to running this command to download fresh package databases from the server.
    – tukusejssirs
    Jan 14, 2022 at 8:54
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    Perhaps better to just use pacman -Fy file_name as recommended in VasyaNovikov's answer, at least if you use it infrequently. After the first use, of course, you can resort to pacman -F file_name, but as @tukusejssirs noted, you should still update the database every so often.
    – NotTheDr01ds
    Mar 5, 2022 at 19:48
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I believe pkgfile or pkgfile -s are what you're looking for. For further reference I will direct you to here. The link will show you what other commands you might need a translation for. I hope it helps.

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  • and for local installed packages should be pkgfile -U
    – dag729
    Jan 14, 2010 at 17:10
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You can also use pacman -Fy file_name, as suggested in this Unix & Linux Stack answer.

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