How to Find rpm Source of a Library File (Doc ID 2568959.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 29, 2020

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Goal

How to find source rpm of a library file. This is needed especially when troubleshooting rpm installation failure, dependency issues.

Eg:

# rpm -i glibc-2.17-260.0.9.el7.i686.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libfreebl3.so is needed by glibc-2.17-260.0.9.el7.i686
libfreebl3.so(NSSRAWHASH_3.12.3) is needed by glibc-2.17-260.0.9.el7.i686

To fix issues like this, one should know which rpm provides module reported above. libfreebl3.so & libfreebl3.so(NSSRAWHASH_3.12.3 in this case. 

Solution

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