search in packages before install them

yasharne
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Hi,

I used apt-cache search in ubuntu to search in packages description, What command should I use in order to do that in Fedora?

Thanks

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You can use

dnf search NAME_OR_DESCRIPTION

yum search NAME_OR_DESCRIPTION

Next, you can print the info for a specific package by using

dnf info PACKAGE_NAME

yum info PACKAGE_NAME

You can use command repoquery from yum-utils

repoquery -a --pkgnarrow=available

will give all packages that you have in repos and not installed, you have man repoquery have good examples .

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