On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> Deke Clinger wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Now that Gus showed me what to look for, it is installed. Perhaps the
> > > author
> > > took it for granted that every system should have it already?
> > >
> > > 'yum list all | grep g++' gave me nothing as did 'rpm --whatprovides g++'.
> > >
> > > I don't understand why these things aren't smarter about all this.
> > > configure.log shows that it continually tries to use 'g++', so why isn't
> > > it
> > > easier to get 'g++'? I would think that 'yum install g++' would come back
> > > with "Oh, you probably want gcc-c++ which contains g++".
> > >
> >
> > yum whatprovides g++
> > <install package(s) based on output>
> >
> > -Deke
> >
>
> # yum whatprovides g++
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
> fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
> adobe-linux 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> dribble 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> rpmforge 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 2.1 MB 00:26
> freshrpms 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
> No Matches found
So you're the second person to tell me this doesn't work. I'm happy to
be corrected on this because I've been advertising it to people at
work as a key benefit of yum. It works on every flavor of RHEL that
I've tested it on. The manual appears to offer exactly this
functionality:
provides or whatprovides
Is used to find out which package provides some feature
or file. Just use a specific name or a file-glob-syntax
wildcards to list the packages available or installed
that provide that feature or file.
I can only guess this has something to do with Fedora vs RHEL although
that makes no sense whatsoever to me.
Can anybody clue me into why this doesn't work on Fedora as I've come
to expect it to on RHEL?
-Deke
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