I just had an odd experience trying to use 'yum provides' to find the
acpidump command:

> [pilcher@ian ~]$ sudo yum provides '*/acpidump'
> Loaded plugins: langpacks, show-leaves
> fedora/20/x86_64/metalink                                                    
> |  18 kB  00:00:00     
> fedora-HandBrake                                                             
> | 2.9 kB  00:00:00     
> google-chrome                                                                
> |  951 B  00:00:00     
> google-musicmanager                                                          
> |  951 B  00:00:00     
> google-talkplugin                                                            
> |  951 B  00:00:00     
> livna                                                                        
> | 1.3 kB  00:00:00     
> rpmfusion-free                                                               
> | 3.3 kB  00:00:00     
> rpmfusion-free-updates                                                       
> | 3.3 kB  00:00:00     
> rpmfusion-nonfree                                                            
> | 3.3 kB  00:00:00     
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                                    
> | 3.3 kB  00:00:00     
> updates/20/x86_64/metalink                                                   
> |  14 kB  00:00:00     
> updates                                                                      
> | 4.9 kB  00:00:00     
> updates/20/x86_64/primary_db                                                 
> |  11 MB  00:00:03     
> (1/4): rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/20/x86_64/primary_db                        
> | 115 kB  00:00:00     
> (2/4): rpmfusion-free-updates/20/x86_64/primary_db                           
> | 343 kB  00:00:00     
> (3/4): updates/20/x86_64/updateinfo                                          
> | 1.3 MB  00:00:00     
> (4/4): updates/20/x86_64/pkgtags                                             
> | 1.0 MB  00:00:00     
> fedora-HandBrake/20/x86_64/filelists_db                                      
> | 3.6 kB  00:00:00     
> google-chrome/filelists                                                      
> | 1.4 kB  00:00:00     
> rpmfusion-free-updates/20/x86_64/filelists_db                                
> | 231 kB  00:00:00     
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/20/x86_64/filelists_db                             
> |  59 kB  00:00:00     
> updates/20/x86_64/filelists_db                                               
> |  17 MB  00:00:04     
> No matches found

Google a bit and find out it may be in the acpica-tools package:

> [pilcher@ian ~]$ sudo yum install acpica-tools
> Loaded plugins: langpacks, show-leaves
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package acpica-tools.x86_64 0:20140424-3.fc20 will be installed
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> ====================================================================================================
>  Package                  Arch               Version                      
> Repository           Size
> ====================================================================================================
> Installing:
>  acpica-tools             x86_64             20140424-3.fc20              
> updates             780 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> ====================================================================================================
> Install  1 Package
> 
> Total download size: 780 k
> Installed size: 2.5 M
> Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
> Downloading packages:
> acpica-tools-20140424-3.fc20.x86_64.rpm                                      
> | 780 kB  00:00:00     
> Running transaction check
> Running transaction test
> Transaction test succeeded
> Running transaction (shutdown inhibited)
>   Installing : acpica-tools-20140424-3.fc20.x86_64                            
>                   1/1 
>   Verifying  : acpica-tools-20140424-3.fc20.x86_64                            
>                   1/1 
> 
> Installed:
>   acpica-tools.x86_64 0:20140424-3.fc20                                       
>                       
> 
> Complete!
> New leaves:
>   acpica-tools.x86_64
> [pilcher@ian ~]$ which acpidump
> /usr/bin/acpidump

Shouldn't "yum provides '*/acpidump'" have turned up acpica-tools?

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Ian Pilcher                                         arequip...@gmail.com
           Sent from the cloud -- where it's already tomorrow
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