which package has what functionality?

[Serge de Souza]

David L Norris wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 09:46 +0800, Greg Matheson wrote:
> 
>>I have a2ps, but not texi2dvi. What can I search for to find
>>which package this is in, rather than keep on installing packages
>>and then seeing if I've got it or not?
> 
> 
> $ yum provides texi2dvi
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Extras
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Looking in available packages for a providing package
> Available package: man-pages-ja.noarch 0:20040715-3 from
> updates-released matches with
>  /usr/share/man/ja/man1/texi2dvi.1.gz
> 1 results returned
> Looking in installed packages for a providing package
> Installed package: texinfo.i386 0:4.7-4 matches with
>  /usr/bin/texi2dvi
> Installed package: texinfo.i386 0:4.7-4 matches with
>  /usr/share/man/man1/texi2dvi.1.gz
> Installed package: a2ps.i386 0:4.13b-37 matches with
>  /usr/bin/texi2dvi4a2ps
> Installed package: a2ps.i386 0:4.13b-37 matches with
>  /usr/share/man/man1/texi2dvi4a2ps.1.gz
> 4 results returned
> 

I find rpm.pbone.net to be faster as yum can take a while. If you use 
pbone make sure to do an advanced search and only include your distro.

Serge