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[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

I would like to check if a package in available for installation by using dnf
without installation.

Thank

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[Roger Heflin]

The simple stupid way is:
dnf list | grep -i package-name-here

On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 1:08 PM Patrick Dupre  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to check if a package in available for installation by using dnf
> without installation.
>
> Thank
>
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>  9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE
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[Joe Zeff]

On 7/21/22 12:15, Roger Heflin wrote:
> The simple stupid way is:
> dnf list | grep -i package-name-here

Much simpler is:
dnf list available $PACKAGENAME

[Samuel Sieb]

On 7/21/22 11:07, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> I would like to check if a package in available for installation by using dnf
> without installation.

Is there a reason you sent this 3 times?

[Roger Heflin]

That assumes you know the right package name.

mythtv is one that is hard to guess (there is no mythtv, but there are
multiple components).

And there are others that do not name the packages with just the
obvious name only.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 1:44 PM Joe Zeff  wrote:
> On 7/21/22 12:15, Roger Heflin wrote:
> > The simple stupid way is:
> > dnf list | grep -i package-name-here
>
> Much simpler is:
> dnf list available $PACKAGENAME
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[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2022-07-21 at 18:40 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
> That assumes you know the right package name.
>
> mythtv is one that is hard to guess (there is no mythtv, but there
> are
> multiple components).
>
> And there are others that do not name the packages with just the
> obvious name only.

I generally use 'dnf search ...':

$ dnf search mythtv
Last metadata expiration check: 15:02:42 ago on Fri 22 Jul 2022 00:01:38 BST.
=========================================================================== Name Exactly Matched: mythtv ===========================================================================
mythtv.x86_64 : A digital video recorder (DVR) application
========================================================================== Name & Summary Matched: mythtv ==========================================================================
kodi-pvr-mythtv.x86_64 : MythTV PVR for Kodi
mythtv-backend.x86_64 : Server component of mythtv (a DVR)
mythtv-base-themes.x86_64 : Core user interface themes for mythtv
mythtv-common.x86_64 : Common components needed by multiple other MythTV components
mythtv-devel.x86_64 : Development files for mythtv
mythtv-docs.noarch : MythTV documentation
mythtv-frontend.x86_64 : Client component of mythtv (a DVR)
mythtv-libs.x86_64 : Library providing mythtv support
mythtv-setup.x86_64 : Setup the mythtv backend
mythtv-status.noarch : Get the current status of your MythTV system at the command line
ncid-mythtv.noarch : NCID mythtv module sends Caller ID information to MythTV
perl-MythTV.noarch : Perl bindings for MythTV
php-MythTV.noarch : PHP bindings for MythTV
python3-MythTV.noarch : Python bindings for MythTV
============================================================================= Summary Matched: mythtv ==============================================================================
cppmyth.i686 : Client interface for the MythTV backend
cppmyth.x86_64 : Client interface for the MythTV backend
mytharchive.x86_64 : A module for MythTV for creating and burning DVDs
mythbrowser.x86_64 : A small web browser module for MythTV
mythffmpeg.x86_64 : MythTV build of FFmpeg
mythgame.x86_64 : A game frontend (xmame, nes, snes, pc) for MythTV
mythmusic.x86_64 : The music player add-on module for MythTV
mythnews.x86_64 : An RSS news feed plugin for MythTV
mythplugins.x86_64 : Main MythTV plugins
mythweather.x86_64 : A MythTV module that displays a weather forecast
mythweb.noarch : The web interface to MythTV

poc

[Tim]

On Fri, 2022-07-22 at 15:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I generally use 'dnf search ...':

Or:  dnf search --all mythtv

Adding the "all" option will mean that descriptions mentioning mythtv
will be included in the results, not just packages with mythtv in the
filename or brief summary.

Sometimes that finds a few more packages of interest.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2022-07-23 at 03:21 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-07-22 at 15:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I generally use 'dnf search ...':
>
> Or:  dnf search --all mythtv
>
> Adding the "all" option will mean that descriptions mentioning mythtv
> will be included in the results, not just packages with mythtv in the
> filename or brief summary.
>
> Sometimes that finds a few more packages of interest.

Indeed.

poc