maverick wrote:
I got into my friends computer using DSL, so
now I have a tool to do this the next time.
Anyway after I got in and reconfigure his
passwords I told him that we should probably
update it. So I show him how easy it is with
yum. Anyway he ask me a question what are
all these programs for, granted I should have
done a more specific update instead of just
doing yum update but I did. Anyway does
anyone know of a place that has a quick one
sentence explanation of all the programs.
I'm sure there is a way to this using yum or
some other tool and I will check on that but
I was wondering if there way a webpage.
Thank you.
mav CCNA, CCA
When updating/upgrading after installing Fedora
8 I used YumEx which gives a selection panel and
panels to get a description and another panel to
list all the files that are installed with the app.
It is true there are apps and tools that I
suppose others like me have also never used and
would like to know about and use. Now I want to
look up if that description field can be spit
out from the command line. Right now I would
probably use one of these:
man [command]
info [command]
apropos [command]
For related file lists from the command line I use:
rpm -qa | grep [command]
then
rpm -ql [the exact output from the above]
That gives me the list of related files
installed with the app. To find the executable
only do this:
rpm -ql [the exact output from the above] | grep bin
Now that I think about it you probably know all
of this anyway but maybe a newbie will see this
too even though they should probably use YumEx
anyway.
rbw
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