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

[Kyle Pointer <kapointer@charter.net>]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:18 -0500, Harold Crouch wrote:
> 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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# yum provides filename 

Will list all packages containing the file you give as 'filename'. 
Very nifty. However, it does take a few minutes to generate the
filelists. 
:)

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