is fedora really bleeding edge?

T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingsworth at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 01:51:44 UTC 2012


On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> On 3/4/2012 5:28 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 05.03.2012 02:01, schrieb Paul Allen Newell:
>>> On 3/4/2012 1:46 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Run: yum install python3\*
>>>> and see what happens.
>>>
>>> Aaron:
>>>
>>> I just went through all the man pages and docs on yum and couldn't see
>>> what this syntax meant. To get python3, I do
>>> "yum install python3" ... what does the \* get me?
>>
>> the backslash escapes the * for the shell
>> if not all filenames starting with python3 would be
>> interpreted as parameter what you surely do not want
>>
>>
> Reindl:
>
> Thanks. From a shell point-of-view, this makes sense, but I am still not
> certain what it buys me over just "yum install python3".

`yum install python3` just installs the "python3" package containing
the Python 3 interpreter, while `yum install python3\*` installs every
package that begins with "python3", e.g. the Python 3 interpreter and
all library packages for it included in the Fedora repository.

-T.C.


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