[ale] useful!

[Derek Atkins]

Jim,

It used to be the case that the 'provides' command did a full path
compare, so I got into the habit of using:

 yum provides '*/semanage'

Maybe they've fixed this in the intervening years, but old habits die hard

-derek

On Fri, December 16, 2016 2:59 pm, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I use rpm/yum/dnf almost daily. I found a new, really useful command to
> yum. Let's say you want to run the semanage command (to manipulate the
> selinux existing settings) and you get the dreaded "command not found".
>
> Ah HA! Run the magic command"
>
> 'yum provides semanage'
>
> and it gives the package I need to install.
>
> Sadly, dnf, the yum replacement for Fedora does not always work (no
> semanage found but firefox was which is a package name instead of a
> file in a package like semanage).
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III
>
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