I have a file that I suspect was installed by pip
.
How can I find which package installed that file?
In other words, I'm looking for a command similar to pacman -Qo filename
or dpkg -S filename
, but for pip
. Does it exist? Or should I use some combination of pip
and grep
?
In that case, I don't know how to list all the file installed.
You could try with
pip list | tail -n +3 | cut -d" " -f1 | xargs pip show -f | grep "filename"
Then search through the results looking for that file.
You can use a python script like this:
#! /usr/bin/env python
import sys
import pip.utils
MYPATH=sys.argv[1]
for dist in pip.utils.get_installed_distributions():
# RECORDs should be part of .dist-info metadatas
if dist.has_metadata('RECORD'):
lines = dist.get_metadata_lines('RECORD')
paths = [l.split(',')[0] for l in lines]
# Otherwise use pip's log for .egg-info's
elif dist.has_metadata('installed-files.txt'):
paths = dist.get_metadata_lines('installed-files.txt')
else:
paths = []
if MYPATH in paths:
print(dist.project_name)
Usage looks like this:
$ python lookup_file.py requests/__init__.py
requests
I wrote a more complete version here, with absolute paths:
https://github.com/nbeaver/pip_file_lookup
Try this!
find_pkg_by_filename(){ for pkg in $(pip list | cut -d" " -f1) ; do if pip show -f "$pkg" | grep "$1" ; then echo "=== Above files found in package $pkg ===" ; fi ; done ; }
find_pkg_by_filename somefilename
Note that if you add -q
to the grep
, it will exit as soon as there's a match, and then pip will complain about broken pipes.