On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Sam Drinkard wrote: > 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? > Yes. It's usually just the package name. yum list | grep name is a favorite. Or yum list > yum.lst then grep <name> yum.lst if I'm on a slower link. yum list fragment* works too (yum list perl*) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim at rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine