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Rpm Tools

cmd:rpm

Routine usage

info gen

rpmc -qilp postgresql-* > ~/discards/postgresql-all.lst

info query

rpmf pgaccess ~/discards/postgresql-all.lst
cat ~/discards/postgresql-all.lst | rpmf pgaccess
rpmc -qail | rpmf sshd.conf

rpm -qp --requires <file.rpm>

If you're unsure if the packages you're adding manually are going to work, you can use it to see if you can resolve them.

rpm -qa --queryformat='%{NAME}\n'

info query

rpmp=ksconfig

one package

$ rpmc -qi $rpmp | sed -n '1p; /^Summary/p'
Name        : ksconfig                     Relocations: (not relocateable)
Summary     : A graphical interface for making kickstart files.

$ rpmc -qi $rpmp | sed -n '1p; /^Summary/,$p'
Name        : ksconfig                     Relocations: (not relocateable)
Summary     : A graphical interface for making kickstart files.
Description :
This package contains a graphical tool for creating kickstart files.
The ksconfig utility will allow you to set most of the kickstart
options.

File listing

# file listing
rpm -ql $rpmp | xargs ls -l
# directory listing
rpm -ql miniChinput | xargsl1 dirname | sort -u | xargs ls -ld

Summary for all packages

rpmc -qai | grep -E "^(Name|Summary)$s*:"
rpmc -qip x* | grep -E "^(Name|Summary)$s*:" | cut -c15- | sed 's/ *Relocations: .*//'

Sample usage

package info

rpm -qaiRl > ~/discards/rpms.lst

rpm -qpiRl pkg

show the info of a un-installed rpm package.

rpm -qpi mkkickstart-2.1-1.noarch.rpm

list what it depends on

rpm -qpR xxxx.rpm

You can swap '-R' with '—requires'

list what files it includes

rpm -qpl xxxx.rpm
rpm -q -p -i --list xxxx.rpm

Verify

rpm -V -p <package>

Installation

rpm -qpR <package>
rpm -i -vv !$ | tee /tmp/rmp.inst.!$.log

rpm -i --nodeps

— Don't do a dependency check before installing or upgrading!

Upgrade

rpm -U -vv <package> [-f]

Query

rpm -q tcl
rpm -qa

Which package it comes from?

rpm -qail | cgreps "^Group$s" printcap

rpm -qp -filesbypkg /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/*.rpm | grep libwraster.so.1

which results in:

WindowMaker               /usr/X11R6/lib/libwraster.so.1
WindowMaker               /usr/X11R6/lib/libwraster.so.1.2.0

Remove

rpm -evv emacs-X11-20.5-7
rpm -qa --queryformat='%{NAME}\n' | grep mozilla | xargs rpm -e

From rpm file name to rpm package name

ls *.rpm | sed 's/-[0-9][0-9.]*.*$//'

Remove devel packages

rpmc -qa | grep -- '-devel' | sort > /tmp/rpm-devel.lst.0

rpmc -qa | grep -- '-devel' | xargs -l1 rpm -ev

— repeat several times.


	!!

The only two packages that are absolutely necessary are:

glibc-devel is needed by gcc-2.96-98
libstdc++-devel = 2.96 is needed by gcc-c++-2.96-98

Help

QUERY OPTIONS The general form of an rpm query command is

rpm -q [query-options]

-p <package_file>
-i     Display  package  information,  including  name,  version, and
       description.
-R, --requires
       List packages on which this package depends.
-l, --list
       List files in package.
--triggerscripts
       Shows all the trigger scripts for the selected packages.

into db

rpmc -qip x* | grep -E "^(Name|Summary)$s*:" | cut -c15- | sed 's/ *Relocations: .*//'

documented on: 2000.10.23 Mon 21:58:55