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Commands using rpm

Terminal - Commands using rpm - 41 results

rpm -qa --queryformat '%{size} %{name}-%{version}-%{release}\n' | sort -k 1,1 -rn | nl | head -16

2013-03-19 21:10:54

User: mpb

Functions: head nl rpm sort

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Display 16 largest installed RPMs in size order, largest first

Interesting to see which packages are larger than the kernel package.

Useful to understand which RPMs might be candidates to remove if drive space is restricted.

rpm -q --queryformat="%{NAME}: %{OPTFLAGS}\n" <rpm>

2012-12-05 22:18:03

User: robinsonaarond

Functions: rpm

Tags: rpm queryformat compile

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Shows what an RPM was compiled with.

\n Separates out the architectures on different lines.

sudo rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep keyword`

2012-10-22 16:06:39

User: mstock

Functions: grep rpm sudo

Tags: rpm

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Remove any RPMs matching a pattern

This should be an option to rpm, but isn't. I wind up using it a lot because I always forget the full name of the packages I want to delete.

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rpm -qa | sort | sed -n -e "s/\-[0-9].[0-9]*.*//p" | uniq

2012-06-04 12:36:39

User: tuxknowledge

Functions: rpm sed sort

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Find a list of all installed packages on a Redhat/CentOS system

This will list all installed packages on a RedHat/CentOS based system, sort them alphabetically, Parse off the version numbers, and delete any duplicate entries.

This is good if you need to build out a mirrored system or rebuild a failing system.

whichpkg() { rpm -qf "$@"; }

2011-07-05 23:39:32

User: flatcap

Functions: rpm

Tags: rpm

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Find the package a command belongs to on rpm-based distros

Find the package a file belongs to on an rpm-based distro.

summpkg() { rpm -qfi "$@"; }

2011-07-05 23:39:24

User: flatcap

Functions: rpm

Tags: rpm

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A file's rpm-package details

Find information about the rpm package which owns a certain file.

diff rpm_output_from_other_computer <(rpm -qa|sort)

2011-06-25 11:45:15

User: xeor

Functions: diff rpm

Tags: diff file descriptor

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Using commandoutput as a file descriptor

Description is moved to "Sample output" because the html sanitizer for commandlinefu breaks the examples..

sudo rpm -if "http://rpm_server/rpm_repo/this-app.rpm"

2011-05-23 08:19:15

User: igorfu

Functions: rpm sudo

Tags: rpm remote

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Install a remote RPM

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rpm -qa kernel

2011-03-15 15:34:24

User: rubiojr

Functions: rpm

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Lists installed kernels

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rpm -q --whatprovides $filename

2011-02-09 23:28:15

User: mpb

Functions: rpm

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find the rpm package name that provides a specific file

For Linux distributions using rpm (eg Mandriva), this command will find the rpm package name that provides a file.

rpm -qp --scripts package.rpm

2011-01-04 14:38:14

User: gerard

Functions: rpm

Tags: rpm package

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show rpm packages scriptlets

rpm -q --queryformat %{VERSION}\\n pkgname

2010-06-03 01:54:17

User: mrwill

Functions: rpm

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Show a Package Version on RPM based distributions

if you want to see all information about a package use: rpm -qi pkgname

full list of querytags can be accessed by the command: rpm --querytags

you can also customize the query format how ever you like with using more querytags together along with escape sequences in "man printf"! you can also use more than one package name.

for example this command shows name and version in to columns: rpm -q --queryformat %-30{NAME}%{VERSION}\\n pkg1 pkg2

rpm -q -a --qf '%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -k1,1n

2010-04-19 07:44:49

User: octopus

Functions: rpm sort

Tags: rpm Linux UNIX package

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List all packages by installed size (Bytes) on rpm distros

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rpm -qa --qf "%-30{NAME} %-10{SIZE}\n" | sort -n | less

2010-04-14 07:30:37

User: betsubetsu

Functions: rpm sort

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Sort installed rpms in alphabetic order with their size.

rpm -qa --qf "%-10{SIZE} %-30{NAME}\n" | sort -nr | less

2010-04-14 07:28:41

User: betsubetsu

Functions: rpm sort

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Sort installed rpms by decreasing size.

It's all said in the title.

rpm --querytags | egrep -v HEADERIMMUTABLE | sort | while read tag ; do rpm -q --queryformat "$tag: [%{$tag} ]\n" -p $SomeRPMfile ; done

2010-03-25 05:40:48

User: DoNotRememberMe

Functions: egrep read rpm sort

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Dump an rpm's package details (besides the files)

If you want to relocate a package on your own, or you just want to know what those PREIN/UN and POSTIN/UN scripts will do, this will dump out all that detail simply.

You may want to expand the egrep out other verbose flags like CHANGELOGTEXT etc, as your needs require.

It isn't clear, but the formatting around $tag is important: %{$tag} just prints out the first line, while [%{$tag }] iterates thru multi-line output, joining the lines with a space (yes, there's a space between the g and } characters. To break it out for all newlines, use [%{$tag\n}] but the output will be long.

This is aside from rpm2cpio | cpio -ivd to extract the package files.

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rpm -qf /lib/modules/*

2010-03-01 05:00:56

User: megacoder

Functions: rpm

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Lists installed kernels

Exploit that RPM database just sitting there, taking up space.

rpm -qf /etc/*-release

2010-03-01 01:24:07

User: megacoder

Functions: rpm

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Display which distro is installed

This should work on any RPM-based distribution. It's more reliable than trying to parse the content of the files.

rpm -ivh 'http://www.website.com/path/to/desired_software_package.rpm'

2009-08-17 05:08:58

User: userevolution

Functions: rpm

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download and install the software package in one step

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yum clean all ; rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm ; yum -y upgrade ; reboot

2009-08-01 21:00:43

User: freeman

Functions: rpm

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Updating to Fedora 11

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for i in `rpm -qva | sort ` ; do ; echo "===== $i =====" ; rpm -qvl $i ; done > /tmp/pkgdetails

2009-07-14 20:34:55

User: tkunz

Functions: echo rpm sort

Tags: rpm installed packages

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Create a file list of all package files installed on your Red-Hat-like system for easy grepping

This will create the file /tmp/pkgdetails, which will contain a listing of all the files installed on your RPM-based system (RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, etc). Useful should the RPM system/database become corrupted to find which package installed which files.

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rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME} %{ARCH}\n"

2009-04-07 14:45:06

User: irraz

Functions: rpm

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List installed rpm named and arquitecture.

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rpm -q kernel-2* | grep -v $(uname -r) | xargs yum erase -y

2009-03-28 21:41:15

User: Nick

Functions: grep rpm uname xargs

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Clean the /boot directory

On Fedora clean the boot directory; erase older kernel

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rpm -q --qf "%{VERSION}\n" redhat-release

2009-03-25 16:46:14

User: atoponce

Functions: rpm

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Determine the version of a specific package with RPM

In this case, I'm getting the package version for 'redhat-release', but of course, this can be applied to any package installed on the filesystem. This is very handy in scripts that need to determine just the version of the package, without the package name and all the sed and grep hackery to get to the data you want. To find out all the support format strings that 'rpm --qf' supports:

rpm --querytags

rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n'

2009-03-24 20:42:17

User: llama

Functions: rpm

Tags: rpm

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List all rpms on system by name, version and release numbers, and architecture

The queryformat option can be used in a number of ways to find things like duplicate packages, wrong arch, or the exact package to pass to rpm -e, yum remove, etc.

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