Package List and Description

[Thom Paine]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 10:18, Aaron Gaudio wrote:

> 
> If you want to know what a particular package you have installed does,
> you can use 'rpm -qi [packagename]' to get a summary. Beyond that,
> documentation is usually in /usr/share/doc/[packagename]-[version].
> 
> RH used to also have a file that included the package db for all the
> packages that came on the CDs. Then, you could point rpm to that db
> instead of the default when you did you query: 'rpm --dbpath ...'. I
> don't know if Fedora still has that. 
> 
> As for me, if I want information on a package I don't have installed, I
> usually use synaptic to see it, since I'm an avid apt user. Yum/up2date
> may have a similar way to do this.
> 
Does that still work if the package isn't installed?

I was thinking of the summary that flashes by when you are installing
Fedora. Is that the same one?

Thanks.