2010/7/22 Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 07/22/2010 02:27 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: >> >> I notice that I do not have virtuoso-opensource-utils installed. I ran yum >> info >> virt-o-u... and all it tells me is that these are utilities. >> >> What would this package do for me? What commands, functions does it >> provide? >> What is in it that I might actually like to use or would conceivably use? >> >> How do I get yum to tell me the above in the future, without me having to >> ask >> on a forum (for similar future cases when I wish to know what a package >> actually does, since yum info barely ever really tells you much at all >> upon >> which to base a should I/should I not install question on)? > > Something like this will show you what files are in the package without > installing: > > yumdownloader virtuoso-opensource-utils && rpm -qlp > virtuoso-opensource-utils-6.1.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm On a side note the same can be achieved with "repoquery --list virtuoso-opensource-utils" which will do the same thing using repo metadata rather than downloading the package. repoquery is contained in the yum-utils. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't... _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
