yum update openoffice

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:37 PM -0500 1/17/06, Michael D. Berger wrote:

>[...]
>> Try yum update openoffice*
>>
>> Or if your yum is set to run nightly automatically it may already be
>> updated and not need any new updates.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>[...]
>>
>> Seeing the recent announcement for the openoffice update, I typed:
>>
>>    yum update openoffice
>>
>> Not much happened, and it said there was nothing to update.
>> Did I do the wrong thing?
>> Thanks for your help.
>> Mike.
>[...]

[top-posting corrected]

>The asterisk did the trick.  Is there a generality I should
>infer from this, or are there hidden risks?

Yes to both.  See "man yum" and "man bash".  In general, if you want to
tell yum to wildcard, you should escape the asterisk so that the shell
doesn't manage to expand it first:

    yum update openoffice\*

Also:

    yum list \*open\*
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