Tony Heaton wrote: >> OK, then explain the process of discovering everything without >> installing it first. That might save me a lot of time. I don't >> remember saying anything about menus, though - how do you find >> the new command line programs when they and their corresponding >> man pages aren't installed? > The way I do it is: > > yum info > packageinfo > less packageinfo Yes yum has the package info from the RPM headers in the repos, regardless of whether you installed the package or not. # yum info ddd Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Available Packages Name : ddd Arch : x86_64 Version: 3.3.10 Release: 2 Size : 3.8 M Repo : base Summary: A GUI for several command-line debuggers. Description: The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a popular GUI for command-line debuggers like GDB, DBX, JDB, WDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, and the Python debugger. DDD allows you to view source texts and provides an interactive graphical data display, in which data structures are displayed as graphs. You can use your mouse to dereference pointers or view structure contents, which are updated every time the program stops. DDD can debug programs written in Ada, C, C++, Chill, Fortran, Java, Modula, Pascal, Perl, and Python. DDD provides machine-level debugging; hypertext source navigation and lookup; breakpoint, watchpoint, backtrace, and history editors; array plots; undo and redo; preferences and settings editors; program execution in the terminal emulation window, debugging on a remote host, an on-line manual, extensive help on the Motif user interface, and a command-line interface with full editing, history and completion capabilities. # rpm -q ddd package ddd is not installed The yum search mentioned earlier is like apropos for uninstalled packages, commandline or not. -Andy
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