2009/9/8 Jake Peavy <djstu...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Bruno Wolff III <br...@wolff.to> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:56:54 -0400, >> Jake Peavy <djstu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I'd like to buy a vowel. >> > >> > Can someone tell me what package xxd is in? >> >> If it is installed, you can do: >> yum whatprovides `which xxd` > > This does not appear to be useful information. If I had it installed I > wouldn't need to install it?? > > Or are you saying I need to put the complete path for xxd as the argument > for whatprovides? How am I supposed to know where the RPM I don't have > would install it? oh, yum. > >> >> Reading version lock configuration >> 2:vim-common-7.2.148-1.fc11.x86_64 : The common files needed by any >> version of >> : the VIM editor >> Repo : fedora >> Matched from: >> Filename : /usr/bin/xxd >> >> >> >> 2:vim-common-7.2.148-1.fc11.x86_64 : The common files needed by any >> version of >> : the VIM editor >> Repo : installed >> Matched from: >> Other : Provides-match: /usr/bin/xxd > > aha, vim-common.... done. thanks. > > -- > -jp > > It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Marta cook up about a > hundred drumsticks, then the guy at the Marineland says, "You can't throw > chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish." Sure they eat fish, if that's all > you give them. Man, wise up. >
In that case use this, yum whatprovides *bin/xxd The `*bin/' will limit the search to executables. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines