RPM

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 20:13:35 UTC 2007


Dave Burns wrote:

> On 10/30/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>     I printed out Maximum RPM in 1997 and I refer to it often. I was
>> told today to use:
>>
>>     # rpm -q --whatprovides (complete direction to a file) and it did
>> provide the name of the file that provides /etc/rc.d/init.d/nvideo.
>>
>>     Then just now I got to page 51 and there it listed this capability.
>> I have had this capability for 8 years but didn't know it...
>> :-)

If you learn to read man pages you don't need so many books.  They are a 
lot faster to read, too.

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   Les Mikesell
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