First let me declare that I’m new to CentOS. The folowing is a note to self which demonstrates how we search for a package that provides some commands and intall it using yum on CentOS.
When I ran ‘lsb_release -a’, the following message is returned:
-bash: lbs_release: command not found
To fix it, we need to install the package which provides lsb_release command.
# yum provides */lsb_release
...
redhat-lsb-4.0-3.el6.centos.i686 : LSB base libraries support for CentOS
Repo : base
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/bin/lsb_release
redhat-lsb-4.0-3.el6.centos.x86_64 : LSB base libraries support for CentOS
Repo : base
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/bin/lsb_release
dkms-2.2.0.3-2.el6.noarch : Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework
Repo : epel
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/lib/dkms/lsb_release
So, let’s install redhat-lsb package:
# yum install redhat-lsb
...
Transaction Summary
==========================================================
Install 106 Package(s)
Total download size: 86 M
Installed size: 246 M
Is this ok [y/N]:
...
Wow, the insalled size of 246 M? No, it’s not ok.
Fedora has redhat-lsb-core package (install size 34M all in) which solved the same problem on my machine – not sure if it’s available on centOS…
That is because that redhat-lsb package has all the stuff for lsb – perl modules, extra gui stuff and so on. Lsb-release is a tiny bit of a big virtual package. The core may be smaller – but I suspect still references many other bits.