[Linux-users] FC yum

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>yum search $package

This is fine if one knows the package name.  Often I've found
that I know the name of a program or library I want, not what
package it's in.

My solution to this is that we maintain local mirrors of the
installation and update directories, and I wrote a script that
uses ``rpm -qpl $rpmfile'' to extract the component names in the
script, and build an index that I can grep to find the related
packages.

>On 8/12/07, vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
>> When I use yum to install packages, how do I know the package names  and
>> how do I know if a package exists for Fedora ?
>>
>> Is there a file on the system containing the list of packages ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>
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