Getting information about installing packages

F14 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64

I went to install skype for linux and when I ran the rpm package it failed as it needed the following library qt4-x11. So I wanted to get some information about this library before I installed it. So I did the following:

yum info qt4-x11

It came back with no packages listed for this.

So a bit of searching on the Internet, and I found this works when I install it.

yum install qt4-x11

However, why doesn't it list info about this package, but I can install it without any problems with the same name?

Many thanks for any suggestions,

Based on this:

• http://pkgs.org/fedora-14/fedora-i386/qt-x11-4.7.0-3.fc14.i686.rpm.html

it was renamed from qt4-x11 to qt-x11. You can also confirm this yourself:

$ yum whatprovides qt4-x11
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
1:qt-x11-4.6.2-16.fc13.i686 : Qt GUI-related libraries
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Other       : qt4-x11

which says "qt-x11 is providing qt4-x11". It's probably a "feature" yum show doesn't recursively search the aliased packages.

As a side note, this was probably a question for http://serverfault.com - stackoverflow.com is for programming questions.