[CentOS] About yum..
Jim Bartus
jbartus at advance.netWed Oct 26 16:08:31 UTC 2005
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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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