Re: [CentOS] Strange yum behavior

Johnny Hughes wrote:

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 00:43 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote: yum search is looking for a package that contains the word (or a partial match of the word) you put in anywhere (in the package name, in the name of the files it contains, etc.). This would match everything for which there is an r ... which would be every package in the distro :P

"yum info R" gives you exactly what you want ....

And even though 'yum list "r*"' still gives you a pretty long listing, it only shows packages whose names begin with [rR]. And in these packages listed R can easily be found ...

Cheers,

Ralph