Actually, I did read the man page.
... a few times.
This thread taught me that "provides" is looking for file names, not command
names. I missed that detail in my man page readings.
I think I correctly understood what "search" does. Where I went wrong
(regarding "xeyes") was in expecting that
On 07/12/2018 08:32 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 07/13/18 11:16, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> # dnf provides xeyes
>> xorg-x11-apps-7.7-20.fc28.x86_64 : X.Org X11 applications
>> Repo : fedora
>> Matched from:
>> Provide : xeyes = 1.1.1
>>
>> You want to know why "search" won't find it? This is w
On 07/13/18 11:16, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> # dnf provides xeyes
> xorg-x11-apps-7.7-20.fc28.x86_64 : X.Org X11 applications
> Repo : fedora
> Matched from:
> Provide : xeyes = 1.1.1
>
> You want to know why "search" won't find it? This is why:
>
> # dnf info xorg-x11-apps
> Available Packag
On 07/12/2018 06:34 PM, home user via users wrote:
There are subtle details of these dnf capabilities I'm not grasping
("dnf search" does not find xeyes, even with the "--all" option. But it
is finding a few of the Python IDEs.
# dnf provides xeyes
xorg-x11-apps-7.7-20.fc28.x86_64 : X.Org X11
(sigh, I can finally get back to this)
Thank-you, Samuel.
There are subtle details of these dnf capabilities I'm not grasping
("dnf search" does not find xeyes, even with the "--all" option. But it
is finding a few of the Python IDEs.
I'm trying to learn Python so I can calculate air's
abs
