Time synchronization with Red Hat 7.2

David Rees dbr at greenhydrant.com
Wed Mar 20 23:30:34 PST 2002


On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:26:54PM -0800, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
> 
> Oh.... well, due to the fact that I never seem to know the actual package 
> name of what I am looking for, I usually need up doing:
> 
> rpm -qa | grep <package string>
> 
> instead of:
> 
> rpm -q package-name
> 
> Sure it sends rpm and grep off into a tangent that neither really needed, 
> but it's better (to me anyway) than doing multiple queries because I can't 
> remember what rpm thinks I should search for.

Another great tool is rpmfind.

Point your browser to rpmfind.net, type in the name of the file or package
you're looking for, and voila, you'll be presented with a myriad of RPMs to
choose from.

-Dave



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