dnf5-provides - Man Page

dnf5 provides [global options] <package-spec>...

The provides command in DNF5 finds the packages providing the given <package-spec>. It can match specs by Provides or by filename.

dnf5 provides tito

Outputs which packages provide the command tito.

dnf5 provides /usr/bin/tito

Outputs which package provides the file /usr/bin/tito

dnf5 provides zless

There is no Provides for zless but a package that contains zless exist.
Outputs the package that provides the file /usr/bin/zless

NOTE:

New behavior: if one or more packages are not found by provides DNF5 will now return exit code 1 and list all provides that do not match at the end of the output.

dnf5 provides rpm nonexistent_package

Output provides for rpm and inform in stderr that nonexistent_package
did not match any result.

dnf5-specs(7), Patterns specification

See AUTHORS.md in dnf5 source distribution.

Contributors to the dnf5 project.

dnf5(8).

The man page dnf-provides(8) is an alias of dnf5-provides(8).