Yum Check Available Package Updates

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Red Hat docs say:

To see which installed packages on your system have updates available,
use the following command:

yum check-update

What command must I run to view all available versions for a package installed on my system?

Example: yum check-update tells me java6 update #43 is available, but what if I want update #40?

Best Answer

This command won't focus specifically on one package, but by using a regex to do the matching you can still see what's available:

$ yum list available java\*
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386                                                   1.4.2.0-40jpp.115                                                      installed
java-1.6.0-openjdk.i386                                                      1:1.6.0.0-1.36.1.11.9.el5_9                                            installed
Available Packages
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-devel.i386                                             1.4.2.0-40jpp.115                                                      base     
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-javadoc.i386                                           1.4.2.0-40jpp.115                                                      base     
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-src.i386                                               1.4.2.0-40jpp.115                                                      base     
java-1.6.0-openjdk.i386                                                      1:1.6.0.0-1.40.1.11.11.el5_9                                           updates  
java-1.6.0-openjdk-demo.i386                                                 1:1.6.0.0-1.40.1.11.11.el5_9

You can make it "smarter" by filtering the output using grep.

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