[CentOS] yum provides on centos 5.2

Thu Aug 28 00:56:44 UTC 2008
S.Tindall <tindall.satwth at brandxmail.com>

On Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:


>I am trying things like "yum provides alsamixer" on centox 5.2 
>i386 and x86_64
> also "yum provides vi"
> "yum provides gvimdiff"
> "yum provides dumpiso"
> "yum provides uname"
>
> All of these return "no matches found"
>
> is something broke???

Include the path:

# yum provides uname
No Matches found

# which uname
/bin/uname

# yum provides /bin/uname
coreutils.x86_64 : The GNU core utilities...


Steve