On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:33:28 -0400, William Unruh <
unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
On 2019-08-28, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:08:20 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote: >>
urpmi -y will list all of the packages which contain the phrase. But it
does not list all of them. It list 3 or 4, and puts a ..., which is
useless. If I am looking for something, I want them all. Is there any
Doesn't do that here. On Mageia 6 ...
$ urpmq -y xx|wc -l
57
On Mageia 7 it's 69 lines of output.
What's the output of "head /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg" on that system?
Regards, Dave Hodgins
OK, that is the magic incantation. I was using urpmi -y, not urpmq -y
Thanks.
Lol. I read it as urpmq, as I know that's what's needed rather then
the urpmi as it was written. Guess my brain translated it without me
being consciously aware of it.
With urpmi, the -y option allows you to install one package that
contains the given string. For example, urpmi -y font-misc-cyrillic
will install the only matching package, x11-font-misc-cyrillic,
while urpmi -y font-misc will list all some of the matching packages
and tell you to add the option "a" if you really do want to install
all of the matching packages.
When checking to see what's available rather then to actually install
packages, the urpmq command is the correct command to use.
Not directly related, but just adding that with rpmdrake, if you use
it's search function, by default, it's the equivalent of urpmq -y. To
search within the package summary or description, click on the magnifying
glass icon at the start of the search bar to select which item to search, before starting the search.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
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