On 09/18/2012 05:37 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> namely ones that don't even function....some title are: "Tetravex" -
> Some sort of mutated Sudoku game, "Nibbles" some form of worm game and a
> few others. I have tried going to the "Add / Remove Software" module but
> it doesn't even find these games. So how can I get rid of them without
> having to do a total reinstall? I tried having yum do it, but when I
Slightly OT for your specific question and Frank's already provided a
solution but I keep a shell alias around in .bashrc to look up which
package owns a particular command. It just glues together rpm -qf and which:
qwhich () { if [ "$1" == "" ]; then echo "usage: qwhich <cmd>" ; fi ;
rpm -qf `which $1` ;}
$ qwhich sol
aisleriot-3.2.3.2-2.fc17.x86_64
It's pronounced like "quiche" should not be.
The repoquery command from yum-utils can answer similar questions for
packages in remote repositories but it's much faster to just ask RPM for
things installed locally.
Regards,
Bryn.
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