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What Package Provides What Command

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Sometime we just want to know which package is a command provided by? For instance, which package provides pactl command. Then use pacman in Arch Linux.

[user@hostname ~]$ pacman -Qo pactl
/usr/bin/pactl is owned by libpulse 17.0-3

And for it path,

[user@hostname ~]$ pacman -F pactl
extra/libpulse 16.1-6 [installed: 17.0-3]
    usr/bin/pactl
    usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pactl

Arch Wiki pacman and Pacman Manual man page.
Arch Wiki Tips and Tricks of pacman
Arch Forum Which package provides the executable

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