On Sunday 27 July 2008 16:26:38 The Holy ettlz wrote:
> 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.
It's RHEL 5, and yum seems to work. Thanks (to Sean as well).
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