RPM Tricks

by damonp on October 16, 2005

List all installed RPM packages

rpm -qa

Search for a specific package

rpm -qa | grep searchterm

Search for a package with a name starting with searchterm:

rpm -qa | grep ^searchterm

Get information about an installed package, including all installed files:

rpm -qil packagename

Find out what files have been changed from the original RPM distribution for a package:

rpm -Va packagename

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