yum search behaviour

Julius Smith jos at ccrma.stanford.edu
Mon Aug 11 17:05:45 UTC 2008


If it's installed you can say

 rpm -qid `yum search <pkg>`

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Stewart Williams
<lists at pinkyboots.co.uk> wrote:
> Is there an command-line option for recent yum releases so that it displays
> package descriptions in a 'yum search'?
>
> I do prefer the one line results, but occasionally I'd like to do a search
> the old way too :-)
>
> Or is 'yum info' the only way to go?
>
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> Stewart Williams
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