Re: Where oh where has my uudecode gone?

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 10:14:03PM -0500, Ken Keefe wrote:
> I search the system and it is nowhere. I do a yum list "*uu*" and it's
> not on the list.

You used to be able to install the rpmdb-fedora package and do "rpm -q
--redhatprovides /usr/bin/uudecode".  They took rpmdb-fedora out of
FC4 in favor of using yum for that sort of thing.

Now you need to have the yum-utils package installed, but then you can
do this:

  $ repoquery --whatprovides /usr/bin/uudecode
  Running from cache, results might be out of date.
  sharutils-0:4.2.1-27.x86_64

There's some nifty stuff in the yum-utils package.  I highly recommend
it.  With it installed, I almost don't miss apt.  :-)

If you were using apt, you could just "apt-get install
/usr/bin/uudecode" and it would do the right thing, but apt appears to
be on its way out too...

Steve
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