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Re: Linux Help Needed [message #47117 is a reply to message #47116]

Tue, 24 January 2006 09:03

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Michael Wallace writes:

> Hey David, I know you already found the library, but there's a handy
> little tool on Fedora/Redhat systems (and others based on rpm packages)
> called yum. Once it's set up, you can do fun stuff like "yum provides
> libXp" and you'll get back a list of all the packages that have some
> file or feature matching the name "libXp". It's just really handy when
> you're trying to figure out what package provides a certain file.

I'm playing around a little bit with yum now. For example,
I have Firefox 1.0.4 installed (default from FC4). But
I've used yum to see that there is a package available
for Firefox 1.0.7. I've tried to install that (with yum)
but failed. And what I would *really* like to install
is Firefox 1.5. I've downloaded that installation from
the Mozilla web page, but cannot for the life of me
see where to place it so it gets recognized. I can't
tell where yum has installed things!

I'm reading the Yum documentation, but I'm pretty
sure it thinks I know more about this than I do. :-(

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Nigel Wade on Tue, 24 January 2006 09:28
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 January 2006 09:15
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 January 2006 09:03
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 24 January 2006 08:55
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 January 2006 08:37
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Foldy Lajos on Tue, 24 January 2006 07:35
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 January 2006 07:02
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 January 2006 06:17
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Foldy Lajos on Mon, 23 January 2006 22:16

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