CentOS - Oct 2005 - About yum..

CentOS specificly, is there any rule of thumb about package names when 
searching for and installing things using yum?  I ask, after I finally 
found the perl/Tk package I needed, but only after trying several 
incantations of the package name, from the full blown alpha/numeric name 
to simply perl/Tk.  Is it safe to assume when searching or yum'ing a 
package that just the package name and perhaps up to the release version 
would apply in a majority of cases?

Many thanks...

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Snowman

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Sam Drinkard wrote:
> to simply perl/Tk.  Is it safe to assume when searching or yum'ing a 
> package that just the package name and perhaps up to the release version 
> would apply in a majority of cases?
> 
Yes.  It's usually just the package name.

	yum list | grep name

is a favorite.  Or 

	yum list > yum.lst 

then 

	grep <name> yum.lst 

if I'm on a slower link.

	yum list fragment*

works too (yum list perl*)

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Sam Drinkard wrote:
> CentOS specificly, is there any rule of thumb about package names when 
> searching for and installing things using yum?  I ask, after I finally 
> found the perl/Tk package I needed, but only after trying several 
> incantations of the package name, from the full blown alpha/numeric name 
> to simply perl/Tk.  Is it safe to assume when searching or yum'ing a 
> package that just the package name and perhaps up to the release version 
> would apply in a majority of cases?
> 
> Many thanks...
> 
yum search perl-tk

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