Typically you don’t need to install more because it is always already installed. The other night while researching something on a Windows 7 computer that had Cygwin installed we were looking to use more but it wasn’t installed. I am not sure if all default Cygwin installations don’t include more but in this case it didn’t. I typically use YUM to figure out what package provides specific applications if they are bundled with something else and not named by the command itself. Below is the output of yum whatprovides from a CentOS server when searching for the Linux package that installs more.
Search For Linux Package That Installs More:
- [root@dev ~]# yum whatprovides /bin/more
- Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
- Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
- * atomic: www4.atomicorp.com
- * base: centos.mirror.lstn.net
- * epel: fedora-epel.mirror.lstn.net
- * extras: mirror.wiredtree.com
- * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
- * updates: mirrors.tummy.com
- util-linux-2.13-0.56.el5.i386 : A collection of basic system utilities.
- Repo : base
- Matched from:
- Filename : /bin/more
- util-linux-2.13-0.52.el5_4.1.i386 : A collection of basic system utilities.
- Repo : installed
- Matched from:
- Other : Provides-match: /bin/more
- [root@dev ~]#
As you can see above the util-linux package is the package that installs “more”. You can read the Linux manpage for more by clicking here.
