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 -- Ralph Angenendt......ra at br-online.de | .."Text processing has made it possible Bayerischer Rundfunk...80300 München | ....to right-justify any idea, even one Programmbereich.Bayern 3, Jugend und | .which cannot be justified on any other Multimedia.........Tl:089.5900.16023 | ..........grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061113/128344ae/attachment-0005.sig>