<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Bruno Wolff III <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruno@wolff.to">bruno@wolff.to</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:56:54 -0400,<br>
Jake Peavy <<a href="mailto:djstunks@gmail.com">djstunks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'd like to buy a vowel.<br>
><br>
> Can someone tell me what package xxd is in?<br>
<br>
</div>If it is installed, you can do:<br>
yum whatprovides `which xxd`</blockquote><div><br>This does not appear to be useful information. If I had it installed I wouldn't need to install it??<br><br>Or are you saying I need to put the complete path for xxd as the argument for whatprovides? How am I supposed to know where the RPM I don't have would install it? oh, yum.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Reading version lock configuration<br>
2:vim-common-7.2.148-1.fc11.x86_64 : The common files needed by any version of<br>
: the VIM editor<br>
Repo : fedora<br>
Matched from:<br>
Filename : /usr/bin/xxd<br>
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2:vim-common-7.2.148-1.fc11.x86_64 : The common files needed by any version of<br>
: the VIM editor<br>
Repo : installed<br>
Matched from:<br>
Other : Provides-match: /usr/bin/xxd<br>
</blockquote></div><br>aha, vim-common.... done. thanks.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-jp<br><br>It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Marta cook up about a
hundred drumsticks, then the guy at the Marineland says, "You can't throw
chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish." Sure they eat fish, if that's all
you give them. Man, wise up.
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