given a package name, how do I find the 'yum' command to install it?

[Bennett Haselton]

How do I find the mapping between a PHP package name like
HTTP_Request, and the "yum" command to install it on CentOS 4.4?

For example when I needed to use LWP::UserAgent to use in Perl, the
command was
yum install -y perl-libwww-perl
but I still don't remember how I found that out, I think someone just
told me. I never found how to get the mapping between the package
name "LWP::UserAgent " and the yum argument "perl-libwww-perl".

In the case of PHP packages, is there a similar mapping and how would
I find it for a given package?

[Piotr Siudak]

Bennett Haselton pisze:

How do I find the mapping between a PHP package name like
HTTP_Request, and the "yum" command to install it on CentOS 4.4?

yum search HTTP_Request

For example when I needed to use LWP::UserAgent to use in Perl, the
command was
yum install -y perl-libwww-perl
but I still don't remember how I found that out, I think someone just
told me. I never found how to get the mapping between the package
name "LWP::UserAgent " and the yum argument "perl-libwww-perl".

In the case of PHP packages, is there a similar mapping and how would
I find it for a given package?

it is
php-pear-HTTP-Request

--
Piotr Siudak

[Bennett Haselton]

On Dec 3, 10:50 pm, Piotr Siudak <[e-mail] ote:

Bennett Haselton pisze:

How do I find the mapping between a PHP package name like
HTTP_Request, and the "yum" command to install it on CentOS 4.4?

yum search HTTP_Request

I tried that and I got "No Matches found":

[root@D2585 ~]# yum search HTTP_Request
Searching Packages:
Setting up repositories
update 100% |============== ===========| 951 B
00:00
base 100% |============== ===========| 1.1 kB
00:00
addons 100% |============== ===========| 951 B
00:00
extras 100% |============== ===========| 1.1 kB
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |============== ===========| 165 kB
00:00
update : ############### ############### ############### ##### 510/510
Added 18 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.99 seconds
No Matches found

For example when I needed to use LWP::UserAgent to use in Perl, the
command was
yum install -y perl-libwww-perl
but I still don't remember how I found that out, I think someone just
told me. I never found how to get the mapping between the package
name "LWP::UserAgent " and the yum argument "perl-libwww-perl".

In the case of PHP packages, is there a similar mapping and how would
I find it for a given package?

it is
php-pear-HTTP-Request

I tried that and got "No Match for argument: php-pear-HTTP-Request":

[root@D2585 ~]# yum install php-pear-HTTP-Request
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: php-pear-HTTP-Request
Nothing to do

In fact Google only lists *one* match for "yum install php-pear-HTTP-
Request" on the entire Web:
http://forge.vtiger.com/docman/view....with%20Cas.doc
Are you sure this is the most common way of doing this?

The ONLY thing I want to do is have a PHP script that's able to access
a remote URL and test whether it exists (i.e. gives 404 or not). Is
this the simplest way?

-Bennett