# Where to get help

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-to-get-help/9732>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [April 29, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-to-get-help/9732 "2023-04-29T19:46:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![johni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b38774/32.png) [@johni](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/johni)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-to-get-help/9732/1 "2023-04-29T19:46:59Z")

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I just installed Rocky on our server after many years on Fedora and I have had quite a bit of trouble with missing utilities (locate and smartctl are two examples). I turned on all of the crb repositories and found (m)locate but not smartctl. Some zip formats (.xz and .lz at least) are missing and my most pressing problem is re2c,required to compile PHP, is also MIA. Obviously I missed something on the Rocky install but any ideas how to find it or where to look?

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**Author:** ![lumarel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/lumarel/32/909_2.png) [@lumarel](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/lumarel)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-to-get-help/9732/2 "2023-04-29T19:52:13Z")

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Tbh, normally I just search on [pkgs.org](http://pkgs.org), because it not only has all the 1st party repos but also most of the 3rd party repos searchable.

It looks like `smartctl` is part of the `smartmontools` package: [https://rockylinux.pkgs.org/9/rockylinux-baseos-x86\_64/smartmontools-7.2-6.el9.x86\_64.rpm.html](https://rockylinux.pkgs.org/9/rockylinux-baseos-x86_64/smartmontools-7.2-6.el9.x86_64.rpm.html)

And `re2c` is not part of the 1st party repos, but it’s in EPEL: [https://rhel.pkgs.org/9/epel-x86\_64/re2c-2.2-1.el9.x86\_64.rpm.html](https://rhel.pkgs.org/9/epel-x86_64/re2c-2.2-1.el9.x86_64.rpm.html)  
(assuming you are using Rocky 9 in 8 it’s in the PowerTools repo)

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**Author:** ![johni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b38774/32.png) [@johni](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/johni)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-to-get-help/9732/3 "2023-04-29T20:19:43Z")

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Thanks! I didn’t know about the [pkgs.org](http://pkgs.org) site. That should be helpful. As a matter of curiosity, how did you find that smartctl was in the smartmontools package? Is there some obvious way to check inside packages?

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**Author:** ![sspencerwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@sspencerwire](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/sspencerwire)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-to-get-help/9732/4 "2023-04-29T20:27:45Z")

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@johni I’m assuming Rocky Linux 9.x here, but it should work the same on 8.x:

```auto
dnf whatprovides smartctl

```

Which shows:

```auto
smartmontools-1:7.2-6.el9.x86_64 : Tools for monitoring SMART capable hard disks
Repo : @System
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/sbin/smartctl

smartmontools-1:7.2-6.el9.x86_64 : Tools for monitoring SMART capable hard disks
Repo : baseos
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/sbin/smartctl

```

Hope this helps!  
Steve

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**Author:** ![lumarel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/lumarel/32/909_2.png) [@lumarel](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/lumarel)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-to-get-help/9732/5 "2023-04-29T20:35:24Z")

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As @sspencerwire is already saying, you can either do the `dnf whatprovides` but also on [pkgs.org](http://pkgs.org) you can search by filename, and then it will show up 🙂

[https://pkgs.org/search/?q=smartctl&on=files](https://pkgs.org/search/?q=smartctl&on=files)

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**Author:** ![johni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b38774/32.png) [@johni](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/johni)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-to-get-help/9732/6 "2023-04-29T20:39:01Z")

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Thanks fellows, especially for being so fast! Changing the distro has been more trouble than expected! Suspect I’m not finished yet.

John

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**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-to-get-help/9732/7 "2023-08-25T03:16:13Z")

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