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Description

Rpmfind will query the local RPM database, or will request the associated RDF file for a program on a remote database, for information on a specified program. Specifically, rpmfind will tell you what packages are needed to install the program to satisfy all dependencies and the size of the packages (so you can estimate download time). Rpmfind can then even download the packages for you.

Rpmfind can also be used to query the RPM database for existing packages using a keyword or a regular expression.

Source

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/rpmfind/rpmfind-rh6-1.2-1.i386.rpm

Comments

Do you want to search it in the catalog? [Y/n] : y

— have to explicitly answer y

-q produce more noise. :-(

'a specific "upgrade" mode exists to check for replacement of older packages. It also walks down the dependency lists and also suggest upgrades for them'

never works for me:

rpmfind -q --latest wine
rpmfind --latest wine

rpmfind -q --upgrade --dist asp wine
rpmfind --upgrade --dist asp wine

X rpmfind -$ rpmfind -q --latest wine

rpmfind --upgrade --dist asp-linux wine
rpmfind --upgrade --dist asplinux wine
rpmfind --upgrade --dist SWsoft wine

It always stupidly insists on installing the RH7.1's version. If I answer no, the program just stupidly quit

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Finding packages:

This mode is used to find packages related to a given topic defined by a keyword of a regex. The syntax is rpmfind —apropos regex and will query the full set of RPM indexed on rpmfind.net for package name and summary descriptions.

For example I have heard about a Borland like programming environment, let' learn about it:

$ rpmfind --apropos borland
1: ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/i386/rhide-1.3-1.i386.rpm
  rhide : Rhide is a very nice IDE exactly like Borland's
$

In that case the query found only one package, all the package containing the substring in their name or summary will be shown.

Installing packages:

This is the "default" mode of rpmfind where you know the name of the package you want to install and rpmfind will locate the "best" package accordingly to your installed distribution, and show also all the other packages needed to solve the dependancies needed.

For example let's install xbill game on the machine:

$ rpmfind xbill

Version 1.6-1-rpm

ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/rpmfind/rpmfind-1.6-1.i386.rpm From Stuff on Rufus.W3.Org

rpm -ivv ~/dl/mustH_b/inet/agent/rpmfind-1.6-1.i386.rpm

Working History

$ rpmfind --latest wine
Arch : i386, Os : Linux
Default distribution : Red Hat, Inc.(BlueSky)
        owning 380 of 461 installed packages
Cannot install or locate resource wine
Do you want to search it in the catalog? [Y/n] : y
1: ftp://ftp.asp-linux.com/pub//i386/RPMS.rc3/wine-devel-20000725-2.i386.rpm
  wine-devel : Wine development environment.

2: ftp://ftp.asp-linux.com/pub//i386/RPMS.rc3/wine-20000725-2.i386.rpm
  wine : A Windows 16/32 bit emulator.

3: ftp://ftp.asp-linux.com/pub//blackcat-linux/6.2/tools/SRPMS/wine-20000213-1.src.rpm
  wine : A Windows 16/32 bit emulator.
4: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.1/en/powertools/i386/SRPMS//wine-990704-1.src.rpm
wine : A Windows 16/32 bit emulator.

Version 1.6-6-rpm

from RPM.Org

rpm -ivv ~/s/myin/rpmfind-1.6-6.i386.rpm

error: failed dependencies:
      libbz2.so.1   is needed by rpmfind-1.6-6
      libdb-3.1.so   is needed by rpmfind-1.6-6
      librpmdb.so.0   is needed by rpmfind-1.6-6
      librpmio.so.0   is needed by rpmfind-1.6-6