[CentOS] About yum..
Sam Drinkard
sam at wa4phy.net
Fri Oct 21 13:09:51 UTC 2005
Tim Edwards wrote:
> Sam Drinkard wrote:
>
>> CentOS specificly, is there any rule of thumb about package names
>> when searching for and installing things using yum? I ask, after I
>> finally found the perl/Tk package I needed, but only after trying
>> several incantations of the package name, from the full blown
>> alpha/numeric name to simply perl/Tk. Is it safe to assume when
>> searching or yum'ing a package that just the package name and perhaps
>> up to the release version would apply in a majority of cases?
>>
>> Many thanks...
>>
> yum search perl-tk
>
Thanks Tim & Jim.
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