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  • The simplest way to do the same on Arch would be to use pkgfile. Commented Oct 5, 2014 at 21:40
  • @kyrias But what if one doesn't have Arch installed? For this question, it's useful to have information about distributions other than the installed one. Commented Oct 5, 2014 at 21:45
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    Yeah, just wanted to make a note of it just in case someone might wonder. The Arch repos doesn't contain a list of all files, though each repo has a files file which is a gzipped database. Searching those manually would be rather painful though so the easiest way would probably be to build pkgfile on your own distro and download the files DB, which also would be rather suboptimal. (Maybe a good project for me to make.) Commented Oct 5, 2014 at 21:53