On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 10:56, Mathieu Jobin wrote: > I'm also looking for the following one. > > - search for available package (like apt-get) > we dont always have correct spelling, so we probably need two command here. > one just to install an undownloaded package, and an other to search by > keyword.
The RPM system doesn't handle these kinds of things itself. For that you need a frontend like apt or urpm*. With urpm* the commands would be: # urpmi transcode To install a package if that package exists. or # urpmf libgz.so To find out what package contains a specific file. > - search for available update. > would list current installed package and search for av. upd. Again, this wouldn't be handled by the RPM system but rather by your update system like apt, up2date, or rc. Other good ones are: -qa Get a list of installed packages:(can be combined with grep to find a specific package) --requires package prerequisites --provides capabilities provided by the package --scripts scripts run after installing/uninstalling the package --changelog package revision history -V verify an installed package --checksig check the gpg signature of a package Jesse -- Jesse Kline, RHCT
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