Where is Kdict?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 16:29:24 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 00:56 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> 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.

We're both right. It's mandatory if the metadata is out of date. If
you've recently done an update then it works.

> You can try what happens if you execute "rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*" beforehand.

Yes, I know that.

poc




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