[CentOS] About yum..
Jim Bartus
jbartus at advance.net
Wed Oct 26 16:08:31 UTC 2005
Sam Drinkard wrote:
> 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.
If you know a specific file you're looking for but not necessarily what
package it may be in:
yum whatprovides filename
-jim
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