How to get the package containing a file?

Question

I just installed firefox but it display the following error :

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.so:

libwayland-efl.so.1: cannot open shared object file : no such file or directory

Couldn't load XPCOM

Is there a way for me to find a package able to fix libwayland-efl.so.1 ? pkgfile doesn't return anything.

ebal · Answer 1 · 2021-06-27T12:01:52.603

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Yes,

pacman has a separate file database for that purpose.

run:

pacman -Fyy

to update the file database and use:

pacman -F libmozgtk.so

to search for the package your are looking for

From the manual page of pacman:

man pacman 

   -F, --files
       Query the files database. This operation allows you to look for packages owning certain
       files or display files owned by certain packages. Only packages that are part of your sync
       databases are searched. See File Options below.

UPDATED answer to remove s from -Fs as it is not needed

edited Jun 27 '21 at 12:01

answered Aug 01 '16 at 18:56

ebal

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That method applied to `libwayland-efl.so.1` gives the package `mesa` and it fixed the problem. – ChiseledAbs Aug 01 '16 at 18:59
This doesn't seem to be true any more; `-Fs` just produces `invalid option '-s'`. – David Given Jun 25 '21 at 20:33
@DavidGiven indeed, you do not need `s` nowadays. I will try to update/edit this answer from 2016. – ebal Jun 27 '21 at 12:00

How to get the package containing a file?

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