DUMB YUM QUESTION

yum list |less
also for a specific package like the rhino package
yum list | grep rhino

Alternately, change the settings in putty so that the scrollback buffer is something better than the paltry 200 lines it does by default. Then you can just use the scrollbar to go back and forth through the list. Right click the title bar, go to change settings. Click on "Window" and change the setting for lines of scrollback. This is handy for cli output too, but you might want to change the option for "Reset scrollback on display activity."

Also, you can capture the output in a file, then edit it, then you can search through it for keywords if you need to. "yum list > somefile.txt"

Also, yum has a built in search. "yum search keyword" grep is case sensitive by default, so "yum list | grep rhino" won't find "Rhino." Whereas yum search rhino will find Rhino or RhInO for that matter. Granted, you could also do yum "list | grep -i rhino" and do pretty much the same thing, however "yum search" will give you a short description of the packages that match, which can come in handy.

Just alternate ways, hopefully I've overwhelmed and confused you so that your only recourse is to hire me to do it for you. That's my goal.

What I use when working on a machine remotely (or even locally) is to tee the output for later use.

E.g., assuming you login to a bash account:
yum list 2>&1 | tee yum.list
This captures both stdout and stderr for later use as well as output to the terminal. You can then print, view, archive, move to another machine, etc. I especially use this when the output is very verbose.

Mike Hamilton