How to Find a Yum Package

當要安裝一套library，可能不只要安裝64 bits版本，也需要安裝32 bits版本時，這個功能就很重要，可以查一下這套library的每種版本的名稱，以方便安裝。譬如說要安裝MyQL；

[root@]#yum search mysql

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=========================================== N/S Matched: mysql ===========================================
MySQL-python.x86_64 : An interface to MySQL
apr-util-mysql.x86_64 : APR utility library MySQL DBD driver
bacula-director-mysql.x86_64 : Bacula Director with MySQL database support
bacula-storage-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL Bacula storage daemon files
dovecot-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL back end for dovecot
freeradius-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL support for freeradius
libdbi-dbd-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL plugin for libdbi
mod_auth_mysql.x86_64 : Basic authentication for the Apache web server using a MySQL database
mysql.x86_64 : MySQL client programs and shared libraries
mysql-bench.x86_64 : MySQL benchmark scripts and data
mysql-connector-java.noarch : Official JDBC driver for MySQL
mysql-connector-odbc.x86_64 : ODBC driver for MySQL
mysql-devel.i686 : Files for development of MySQL applications
mysql-devel.x86_64 : Files for development of MySQL applications
mysql-embedded.i686 : MySQL as an embeddable library
mysql-embedded.x86_64 : MySQL as an embeddable library
mysql-embedded-devel.i686 : Development files for MySQL as an embeddable library
mysql-embedded-devel.x86_64 : Development files for MySQL as an embeddable library
mysql-libs.i686 : The shared libraries required for MySQL clients
mysql-libs.x86_64 : The shared libraries required for MySQL clients
mysql-server.x86_64 : The MySQL server and related files
mysql-test.x86_64 : The test suite distributed with MySQL
perl-DBD-MySQL.x86_64 : A MySQL interface for perl
php-mysql.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications that use MySQL databases
qt-mysql.i686 : MySQL driver for Qt's SQL classes
qt-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL driver for Qt's SQL classes
qt3-MySQL.i686 : MySQL drivers for Qt 3's SQL classes
qt3-MySQL.x86_64 : MySQL drivers for Qt 3's SQL classes
rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL support for rsyslog

  Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything.

就可以獲得完整的資訊，接下來就可以選擇要安裝的版本啦!!!!

[root@]#yum -y install mysql-libs.i686