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== Reverse search: searching which package provides a file ==
== Reverse search: searching which package provides a file ==


There is third party programs [https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index nix-index], and [https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Flakes rippkgs] to find which package provides a given file. This is particularly useful when you are looking for a very specific file but you don't know which package installs it.
There are third party programs that make it easier to determine which package you need to install in order to obtain a specific file or program.
 
These are most commonly used, and require you to create an index on your computer before you can search for a package:
 
* [https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index nix-community/nix-index]
* [https://github.com/replit/rippkgs replit/rippkgs]
 
These are online tools which search an index someone else keeps up to date:
 
* [https://github.com/peterldowns/nix-search-cli peterldowns/nix-search-cli]: <code>nix-search -p theBinaryIWantToInstall</code> to search the search.nixos.org elasticsearch index.


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