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Installation of packages can be sometimes hard. Sometimes one has questions like "I knew a file named A on my machine, what would be the package-name on another machine with a different system which provides the file". This table tries to help to answer questions like this. Installation commands require administration privileges, `su` and `sudo` are omitted here.
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Nomenclature: _filename_ and _package_name_ below can also be a on a part or substring of a file- or package-name especially for some of the search commands.
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| | Hint for application | General | Ubuntu/Debian | openSUSE/SLES | Fedora | Redhat/Centos/Rocky | Arch/Manjaro | MSYS2(Windows) | MacOS |
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| | Hint for application | General | Ubuntu/Debian/Mint | openSUSE/SLES | Fedora | Redhat/Centos/Rocky | Arch/Manjaro | MSYS2(Windows) | MacOS |
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| Website to search for packages | | <https://pkgs.org/> | <https://packages.ubuntu.com/> <https://packages.debian.org/index> | <https://software.opensuse.org/explore> | | | <https://archlinux.org/packages/> <https://aur.archlinux.org/> | <https://packages.msys2.org/queue> | Homebrew <https://brew.sh/> |
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| find out the OS version | | `cat /etc/os-release` | | | | | | | |
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| find out the origin file or alias of a command | | `type `_command-name_ | | | | | | | |
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