How to find which package certain command belongs to on CentOS?

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ANSWER 1

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Ubuntu / Debian example to check the package of the free command:

dpkg -S $(which free)

ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 19

Query the rpmdb.

rpm -qf $(which free)

ANSWER 3

Score 11

For CentOS, how about yum provides?

Use

which free

to find out where it is

For me it's at

/usr/bin/free

So then you can run

yum provides /usr/bin/free

and it will tell you which package has it

ANSWER 4

Score 1

For all red-hat based distributions you can use yum package management utility

yum provides `which free`

provides argument specifies which package provides certain feature or file.