yum whatprovides not matching files

[Rex Dieter]

Ian Pilcher wrote:

> For example, I have kwrite installed, but ...
> 
> [root at home etc]# which kwrite
> /usr/bin/kwrite
> [root at home etc]# yum whatprovides kwrite
> fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 4.9 MB    00:06
> adobe-linux-i386          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.3 kB    00:00
> adobe-linu: ################################################## 2/2
> updates                   100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 466 kB    00:05
> No Matches found
> 
> You can see that yum never bothers to download the filelists.
> 
> Is there a way to make this work as expected?

What is it exactly that you're expecting?

Maybe
yum install /usr/bin/kwrite
is what you're looking for.

-- Rex