10/16/2005
RPM Tricks
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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