Getting descriptions of the yum-able packages...

[Marcelo Giles]

HOWTO use yum
(Quoted =46rom Fedora HOWTO)

yum list
List all available software.

yum check-update OR yum list updates
See if there are updated packages available.

yum update
Update all installed packages that have a newer version available.

yum install <packagename>
Install specific package (and its dependencies, if missing any).

yum search <word>
Search all known packages entries (descriptions etc) for <word>.

yum info <packagename>
Show basic information about a package.

All of the above commands can take shell-style wildcards (*,?) instead=20=

of a package name. Check the yum man page for more details.

On Saturday, May 8, 2004, at 04:22  PM, Douglas Denholm wrote:

>
> When I do a =93yum installed=94 on my newly set up YDL box, I get a =
list=20
> of about 630 packages.
>
> If I check to see how many yummable packages are available but not=20
> installed on my YDL box, I get a list of about 770.
>
> Now I have some idea of what some of them are for but there are dozens=20=

> (and dozens!) where I have no idea what they are for. And the folks=20
> developing these packages seem to enjoy coming up with names that have=20=

> no discernable connection to what their purpose ;).
>
> Is there some place where I can find descriptions of all these=20
> packages?
>
> --Doug=