On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 10:02 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > With apt, if I'm trying to build something, and it requires, say, > "perl(GD::Graph)", I can say `apt-cache search 'perl(GD::Graph)'` and get > back the name of the package that provides this -- or even do `apt-get > install 'perl(GD::Graph)'`, and it magically works. > > Is there a way to do this with yum? I find it invaluable when trying to > build perl RPMs. so first things first: 1. 'yum provides' is probably what you're looking for 2. yum 2.3.1 and above can install like you mention above (although I personally think it's badly stupid) 3. in yum 2.[23].X look at yum resolvedep, too -sv
