Useful RPM commands

[Jman]

RPM packages are the core of a Fedora system. RPM is powerful. A good query can tell you a lot about what's installed on your system.

Note that in most cases you don't have to use rpm directly, use yum (http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware).

(This is all on a terminal prompt.)

This is a basic query, getting some information: rpm -qi packagename
If you don't have it installed yet, just query the .rpm file: rpm -qip filename
To find the package a certain file belongs to: rpm -qf filename
This one lists all your packages sorted by size in decreasing order. Useful for seeing what's taking all the space on your system. (May take a moment to run) rpm -qa --queryformat '%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n' | sort -n -r | less

[jcstille]

Just so if there are any people who have never used RPM packages and found this title interesting, to install a rpm use

rpm -ihv filename.rpm (This is one of many ways to do it)

[imdeemvp]

and the: rpm -e filename to remove

[foolish]

And for more: http://foolish.fedorausers.org/rpm/index.html

[aje]

Thank you!

[WebWind]

Thanx. Very good and usefull

[Sicily1918]

And rpm -Fhv *.rpm, instead of -Uhv, updates only existing packages (-U will update if exists, and install if not present).

[ozZ]

rpm -qa | grep "packagename"

will list the installed packages similar to "filename".

Can be really useful!

[Psquared]

And for more: http://foolish.fedorausers.org/rpm/index.html

I had never been to your site before. I'm impressed and have bookmarked it for future reference. Great job. :)

[thunder1]

foolish thanks for that link very usefull

[engwnbie]

Hey I mean this with tongue and cheek. What are you guys new, always start and recommend the new people visit http://www.fedorafaq.org/ and http://foolish.fedorausers.org/ it answers a lot of questions.

[engwnbie]

Jman sorry to jump in like this. Thanks for the mini how-to. It does help everyone and it is a refressure to the rest of us, meaning me.

[Mat]

to extract the contents of a rpm w/o installing:


rpm2cpio foo.rpm | cpio -idv


this will extract everything into the current directory, so better copy the rpm to a seperate temporary folder first


Mat

[Jman]

I don't mind links to other resources, in fact I encourage them. This is just a quick reference for people who search the How To forum for rpm queries.

[dineshjk]

And for more: http://foolish.fedorausers.org/rpm/index.html


Really very much helpful.

Dinesh