On Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:13:53 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I had a similar reaction until I checked. It turns out that dnf is
smart enough to determine the package from the executable name:
$ sudo dnf install /usr/bin/xrandr
Last metadata expiration check: 2:57:58 ago on Sat 01 Jul 2023
15:12:20 BST.
Package xrandr-1.5.2-2.fc38.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
From 'man dnf':
dnf install vim
DNF will automatically recognize that vim is not a
package name, but will look up and install a package that provides
vim with all the required dependencies. Note: Package name match has
precedence over package provides match.
You learn something new every day.
Yes, I did! Thanks.