Re: [Hampshire] RPM Query

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Author: The Holy ettlz
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] RPM Query

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On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 16:23 +0100, Samuel Penn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How do I search the RPM repository in RedHat Enterprise? In Gentoo,
> I'm used to doing "emerge -s <keyword>", which will find me packages
> matching the keyword. I don't know the name of the packages - all the
> query options I can see seem to require the name of the package or a
> file it has installed - I want to find the name of the packages so
> that I can install them.


If its an RHEL using up2date, I don't know --- try the up2date help (I
think this is RHEL 4). But if it uses yum (RHEL 5 might?) then

yum search keyword

might work. Does on Fedora 8, anyway.

James

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