[CentOS-docs] How do I find xyz.rpm for CentOS?

Sat Apr 25 17:59:02 UTC 2009
JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>

Post this in the general centos list next time.

On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 10:33 -0700, Sean Gilligan wrote:
> My next question is:  "How do I find out if a particular package is 
> available in one of the repositories?"

yum search package_name --enablerepo=*\repo_name

> FAQ/General #8 is "Where can I get package XyZ.rpm for CentOS?" and it 
> links to the  Repositories page. 
> 
> What I'm looking for is links to directories of each repository or 
> (better still) a unified directory and/or search utility.
> 
> Of course, I'm willing to help update pages once I get wiki write access....
> 
> -- Sean
> 
> 
> 
> Alan Bartlett wrote:
> > On 25/04/2009, Sean Gilligan <sean at msgilligan.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> The 'contrib' repository is mentioned on FAQ/General #13:
> >>
> >>  http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-92ba307b036080a16dbffa44486cde25c081fcca
> >>
> >>  but not on the AdditionalResources/Repositories page:
> >>
> >>  http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
> >>     
> >
> > Thanks Sean. Now mentioned.
> >
> > Alan.
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