On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 00:27 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Somehow I managed to install Fecora 13 without openoffice.
yum provides openoffice
reveals nothing.
yum provides "*openoffice*"
buries me in output.
I usually get the same effect whenever I want
to install a package whose name I do not know.
Did you think about using 'search' instead of 'provides'?
Another useful tool: man yum :)
Regards,
Germán.
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Germán A. Racca
National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
São José dos Campos - SP - Brasil
http://skytux.fedorapeople.org