On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 17:01 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 3/4/2012 1:46 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > Run: yum install python3\* > > and see what happens. > > Aaron: > > I just went through all the man pages and docs on yum and couldn't see > what this syntax meant. To get python3, I do "yum install python3" ... > what does the \* get me? > > My apologies in advance if I am missing the obvious ... > Thanks, > Paul Evidently we are entering a state of confusion. I was responding to someone [maybe not you] who said F16 does not support python3. We seem to agree that it does. Now the \* comes from a bash rule. If you enter an argument like python3* bash will try to expand the argument before it is submitted to yum for processing. Using something like python3\* delays the expansion of the argument until yum is processing it so other rpms whose names start with python3 will be downloaded. -- ======================================================================= They can't stop us... we're on a mission from God! -- The Blues Brothers ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
