Nothing To Do - YDL 6.1

[Taellik]

When using the terminal to do installs with the "yum" command, I sometimes run across the phrase "Nothing to do" after executing a "yum" command.

Does this mean the item has been previously installed and a duplicate attempt is being made and there was nothing for YDL to do to complete the process?

Taellik

[billb]

That means it either did not find what you're trying to install, or it's already installed.

To see if something is already installed, you can use:

rpm -q packagename

Example:

rpm -q gedit

You can also use:

yum search packagename

Example:

yum search gedit