Where is Kdict?

Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Mon Jul 21 15:56:55 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote, at 07/22/2008 12:45 AM +9:00:
> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 23:06 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
>> Paul Smith wrote, at 07/21/2008 09:58 PM +9:00:
>>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Mamoru Tasaka
>>> <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
>>>>> Where is Kdict?
>>>>>
>>>>> I have tried
>>>>>
>>>>> # yum search kdict
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> Warning: No matches found for: kdict
>>>>> No Matches found
>>>>> #
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>> Try
>>>> # yum whatprovides \*kdict
>>> Thanks, Mamoru (and John), but nothing relevant is returned with the
>>> above command.
>> "#" means you have to do this "as root"
> 
> In this case it doesn't matter. 'yum' will resolve 'whatprovides'
> without special privileges.
> 
> poc
> 

You have to download yum repository metadata beforehand so 
executing this as root is mandatory.
You can try what happens if you execute "rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*" beforehand.

Mamoru




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