Fedora 17 : Yum equivalent to apt-get build-dep and apt-file search

[ apt-get build-dep ]

apt-get build-dep command installs required packages to build a package from a source code.

apt-get build-dep

build-dep source_pkg Causes apt-get to install/remove packages in an attempt to satisfy the build dependencies for a source package.

In case of Fedora , yum-builddep command is equivalent to apt-get build-dep.

yum-builddep(1)                                                yum-builddep(1) NAME       yum-builddep SYNOPSIS       yum-builddep package DESCRIPTION       yum-builddep  is  a program which installs the RPMs needed to build the       specified package.  The source RPM for the specified  package  must  be       available  in a Yum repository (which will be automatically enabled, if       it is disabled) or it can be a local source RPM file. EXAMPLES       Download and install all the RPMs needed to build the kernel RPM:              yum-builddep kernel

[ apt-file search ]

apt-file search

NAME apt-file - APT package searching utility -- command-line interface SYNOPSIS apt-file [ options ] [ action ] [ pattern ] DESCRIPTION apt-file is a command line tool for searching packages for the APT packaging system. Some actions are required to run the search: update Resynchronize the package contents from their sources. The contents packages are fetched from the location(s) specified in/etc/apt/sources.list. This command attempt to fetch the Contents-<ARCH>.gz file from remote source. search Search in which package file is included. A list of all package containing the pattern pattern is returned.

As for Fedora , yum provides or whatprovides is equivalent to apt-file search

yum provides / whatprovides

provides or whatprovides              Is used to find out which package provides some feature or file.              Just use a specific name or a file-glob-syntax wildcards to list              the packages available or installed that provide that feature or              file.

[root@fc17 ~]# yum provide lsof Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit No such command: provide. Please use /bin/yum --help [root@fc17 ~]# yum provides lsof Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit lsof-4.85-2.fc17.x86_64 : A utility which lists open files on a Linux/UNIX                        : system Repo        : fedora lsof-4.85-2.fc17.x86_64 : A utility which lists open files on a Linux/UNIX                        : system Repo        : @anaconda-0

[root@fc17 ~]# yum whatprovides ping Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit iputils-20101006-14.fc17.x86_64 : Network monitoring tools including ping Repo        : fedora Matched from: Filename    : /bin/ping iputils-20101006-14.fc17.x86_64 : Network monitoring tools including ping Repo        : fedora Matched from: Filename    : /usr/bin/ping iputils-20101006-14.fc17.x86_64 : Network monitoring tools including ping Repo        : @anaconda-0 Matched from: Filename    : /bin/ping iputils-20101006-14.fc17.x86_64 : Network monitoring tools including ping Repo        : @anaconda-0 Matched from: Filename    : /usr/bin/ping [root@fc17 ~]#