03
Nov
10

Trouble finding a program in a Yum repo?

Use this command to find the file inside of a package.

$ yum whatprovides "*executable"

Such as:

$ yum whatprovides "*uuencode"
sharutils-4.6.1-2.x86_64 : The GNU shar utilities for packaging and unpackaging shell archives.
Repo : base
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/bin/uuencode

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