On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 10:18, Aaron Gaudio wrote: > > If you want to know what a particular package you have installed does, > you can use 'rpm -qi [packagename]' to get a summary. Beyond that, > documentation is usually in /usr/share/doc/[packagename]-[version]. > > RH used to also have a file that included the package db for all the > packages that came on the CDs. Then, you could point rpm to that db > instead of the default when you did you query: 'rpm --dbpath ...'. I > don't know if Fedora still has that. > > As for me, if I want information on a package I don't have installed, I > usually use synaptic to see it, since I'm an avid apt user. Yum/up2date > may have a similar way to do this. > Does that still work if the package isn't installed? I was thinking of the summary that flashes by when you are installing Fedora. Is that the same one? Thanks.
