Finding a yum-installed pkg

Konstantin Riabitsev yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Dec 2 16:26:06 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 17:58, Harvey Ussery wrote:
> [root@localhost root]# locate tetex-doc
> /var/cache/yum/base/headers/tetex-doc-0-1.0.7-57.1.ppc.hdr
> 
> That seems kind of weird--looks as if the only tetex-doc on the system 
> is the yum header file??

"Locate" command doesn't really search your disk in real time -- it uses
a database that is updated daily. If you have just installed a file, it
will not see it until the next update is run (usually at 4 am).

> [root@localhost root]# rpm -qa | grep tetex-doc
> tetex-doc-1.0.7-57.1

do "rpm -ql tetex-doc" to get the listing of files belonging to this
rpm.

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin Riabitsev <icon@linux.duke.edu>
Linux@DUKE