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Others => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: veerloh on May 24, 2009, 06:18:11 AM
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Hi,
Is there a way to find out which software packages are by default present in my linux
distro. I have Fedora 8 and i want to know which packages are already present to avoid
downloading of available packages. Also if the packages are present how do i utilise them
or install them.
I want to view a .chm file. How do i make sure if i have such a viewer already
present in my distro. And if it is not, then which is the best viewer in this case.
Regards,
VeeR
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Well, you can use following to see all packages installed on Fedora.
$ rpm -qa
Also there is online database for fedora 8 packages and I hope it will help you a lot..
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/collections/id/14
You can use kchmviewer to view CHM files under linux.
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Thanks Ricky it works.
I also found another way to do it:
1. Command to find out the packages that i have already installed
yum list installed
2. Command to show packages availableto me in my currently configured repository
yum list available
3. Also if i want to modify the previous output in order to find packages starting with foo
yum list available foo\*