On 4/17/07, Brian Barnes bcbarnes@artsci.wustl.edu wrote:
I am having trouble using wildcards ("*") with yum in Centos 5. Listing or installing packages using them just immeidately fails with a "No match" error, and I'm not sure why. Here is an example. Any comments? I'd love to fix this.
Similarly, something like "yum install xorg-x11-font*" would fail with a "No match" error, but the packages show up in a full list.
The machine is a fresh x86_64 install from DVD, yesterday. I previously ran CentOS 4.4 on it with no problems.
This will likely be a hit-or-miss shell expansion problem, as bash(or whatever shell you're using) gets to the * before yum does.
Try something like the following: yum list xorg-x11-font* or yum list 'xorg-x11-font*'
with single ticks to prevent any unwanted shell foolishness.