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The default package manager utility for your operating system will allow you to
query the package repository using regular expressions to identify packages to install.
Table B-3 shows how to search the package repository using the command-line utility
for several distributions. If you prefer to use a GUI, feel free to use your favorite desktop
utility to perform the same search and install operations described here.
Additionally, you can use an online package search tools such as https://pkgs.org
that allow you to search for packages across multiple distros. Figure B-1 shows the results
for many distros when searching for “libpmem.”
Table B-3. Searching for ∗pmem∗ packages on different Linux operating systems
Operating System
Command
Fedora 21 or Earlier
$ yum search pmem
Fedora 22 or Later
$ dnf search pmem
$ dnf repoquery * pmem *
RHEL AND CENTOS
$ yum search pmem
SLES AND OPENSUSE
$ zipper search pmem
CANONICAL/Ubuntu
$ aptitude search pmem
$ apt-cache search pmem
$ apt search pmem
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