Re: yum - package discovery (was: Where oh where has my uudecode

[Harold Crouch <hcrouch@mchsi.com>]

RC> 1) how did you know the path for uudecode or does it not
RC> matter?

HC> $ which uudecode

RC> Sure ... after uudecode is installed.  But how do you know before?
RC> Let me rephrase the question more generally.  Suppose package
RC> foo provides program bar and package foo is not installed on my
RC> system. If I want to run file bar, how would I use yum to discover
RC> what package contains file bar?

Ah, I see.  Sorry, but I don't know the answer for Fedora users.
Debian users would go to:
www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages  
but that doesn't help you very much.  :-(

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