If Icedtea-web is the plug-in component for OpenJDK upstream, its name should be openjdk-plugin !

[Pavel Tisnovsky]

Andrew Dinn wrote:
> On 17/04/12 12:47, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> I just did a "yum install packagename*" on several packages in my server
>> box running
>> Fedora 17 (beta, rc3).
> 
> Yes, you are correct -- I was misreading the error I got when I ran this
> command
> 
>   [root at sputstik ~]# yum install openjdk*
>   Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
>   Setting up Install Process
>   No package openjdk* available.
>   Error: Nothing to do
>   [root at sputstik ~]#
> 
> The problem is not the wildcard itself, rather that the pattern openjdk*
> does not match an actual package. The following does work
> 
>   [root at sputstik ~]# yum install *openjdk*

AFAIK it's still not 100% correct, because shell could in some circumstances
expand *openjdk* into file list (depending on contents of `pwd` of course).
Safer is to use "*openjdk*"

>   Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
>   Setting up Install Process
>   Package 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.6.0.0-65.1.11.1.fc16.x86_64
> already installed and latest version
>   Package 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-65.1.11.1.fc16.x86_64
> already installed and latest version
>   . . .
> 
> regards,
> 
> 
> Andrew Dinn
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