On 4/28/06, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:08:38PM -0400, Nat Gross wrote:
> > On 4/27/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 4/27/06, Nat Gross <nat101l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Hi;
> > > > As a prerequisite for IBM's db2 Viper they say:
> > > > "For RHEL, all available compat-libstdc ++ RPM-packages must be installed."
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone please advise how to achieve this quickly via yum? (64bit
> > > > software running on 64bit centos 4.3.)
> > >
> > > You may want to consult the man page for yum, and/or the documentation
> > > at http://centos.org/docs/4/ about yum.
> > >
> > > yum list compat\* will show you the available compat packages. Install
> > > the ones you need.
> > Thanks. I didn't know that I can use regex patterns for yum. It's much
> > simpler now.
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> <pedantic>
> Actually, you can't.
>
> That is not regex, but glob pattern.
>
> glob : compat*
> regex: compat.*
>
> The \ is just an escape because of the shell.
Ah.
> </pedantic>
>
> This is particularly important to point out since apt actually uses
> regex, while yum uses glob.
Thank you much.
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