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[Andy Green]

Tony Heaton wrote:

>> OK, then explain the process of discovering everything without
>> installing it first.  That might save me a lot of time.  I don't
>> remember saying anything about menus, though - how do you find
>> the new command line programs when they and their corresponding
>> man pages aren't installed?

> The way I do it is:
>
> yum info > packageinfo
> less packageinfo

Yes yum has the package info from the RPM headers in the repos,
regardless of whether you installed the package or not.

# yum info ddd
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Available Packages
Name   : ddd
Arch   : x86_64
Version: 3.3.10
Release: 2
Size   : 3.8 M
Repo   : base
Summary: A GUI for several command-line debuggers.
Description:
 The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a popular GUI for command-line
debuggers like GDB, DBX, JDB, WDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, and the
Python debugger. DDD allows you to view source texts and provides an
interactive graphical data display, in which data structures are
displayed as graphs. You can use your mouse to dereference pointers
or view structure contents, which are updated every time the program
stops. DDD can debug programs written in Ada, C, C++, Chill, Fortran,
Java, Modula, Pascal, Perl, and Python. DDD provides machine-level
debugging; hypertext source navigation and lookup; breakpoint,
watchpoint, backtrace, and history editors; array plots; undo and
redo; preferences and settings editors; program execution in the
terminal emulation window, debugging on a remote host, an on-line
manual, extensive help on the Motif user interface, and a command-line
interface with full editing, history and completion capabilities.

# rpm -q ddd
package ddd is not installed

The yum search mentioned earlier is like apropos for uninstalled
packages, commandline or not.

-Andy
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