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Asked: 2020-02-27 12:28:39 +0800 CST

Determining fully (or sufficiently) qualified rpm package name from short name

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Yum has some sort of built-in "semantic sugar" which does a translation of short-hand package names to actual package names, but I can't figure out how to easily get a hold of it.

Here's a simple repro:

  1. yum install vim (completes successfully, installs vim-enhanced-some-version...)
  2. rpm -q vim (reports not installed)
  3. yum info vim (no matching packages)
  4. yum install vim (vim-enhanced-blah-blah-blah already installed...)

Also, doing rpm -qa | grep "vim-" lists 4 packages but no way to easily figure out the "root" package that is the logical equivalent of just running yum install vim.

How can I figure out a sufficiently qualified package name so that I can do rpm or yum queries on it without having to do some silly dance with scraping the output from yum install?

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1 Answers

  1. Always use yum. yum provides vim

    2:vim-enhanced-7.4.629-6.el7.x86_64 : A version of the VIM editor which includes recent enhancements
Repo        : base
Matched from:
Provides    : vim = 7.4.629-6.el7

    Explicit provides like this are rare in packaging. yum can also search name, file names, or automatically generated library provides from the linker.

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