On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:40:45AM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 11/2/07, Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "python-docutils" isn't anything really, certainly not a command. > > > > Entering "yum info python-docutils" does produce some output but it > > relates more to packaging and installation than to the utilities > > provided. > > python-docutils is a packagename. Once you know its a packagename, > then depending on what information you want about the installed > packagename you may or may not want to query the repository data via > yum. You may want to make very specific queries to the local rpmdb and > if so you will most likely want to use the rpm command. > > For example... > Since man -k docutils returned a hit for the rpm packagename > python-docutils, it means that python-docutils is installed. You can > use the cmdline rpm command to look at the installed files associated > with that installed packagename. rpm -ql python-docutils. > That did actually find the executables which python-docutils installs which is what I was originally looking for, thank you. > If i wanted to be even more narrow about it and just look for > installed commands I'd naively run rpm -ql python-docutils|grep "/bin" > to generate a list of files with "/bin" in the full pathname. > Probably a good idea as it does install a *lot* of files. > FYI, yum does not by default give you access to the full set of > information that can be obtained about installed packages that the rpm > cmdline program does. repoquery in the yum-utils package can a larger > subset of information queries..against repositories if you need > detailed information about packages not yet installed. > -- Chris Green
