Getting a list of available packages using yum


These yum commands can be used to get a list of packages that are available for download from whatever repositories you've get setup in /etc/yum.conf. yum info available | less is probably more than you want to read. yum list available is the short version You can narrow it down with: yum info package(s) or search for names containing a string yum search name

03/08/2005