Brian wrote: > On Sat, June 28, 2008 2:02 pm, AnneWilson wrote: >> Just type 'yum' without parameters, to get a list of possibilities. I >> think 'yum list' may be what you are looking for. (I don't have Fedora or >> CentOS on this laptop so I can't check.) No CentOS or Fedora ... is there any other OS out there besides these two??? I have heard rumors of others, but I don't believe it :D > Or > > yum provides <package name or string> One new behavior is important ... if you are looking for a file name that is part of a string, you have to use wildcards: yum provides libkholidays.so (this give NOTHING) yum provides \*libkholidays.so or yum provides '*libkholidays.so' those will return the answer of: "kdepim.i386 : PIM (Personal Information Manager) for KDE" ============================================= Please remember, we DO NOT WRITE this stuff, we just build it to work the same as upstream :D -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080628/efd9e402/attachment-0004.sig>