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Terminal - Commands using rpm - 48 results
sudo -E rpm -Uvh "http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm"
2015-10-29 14:06:48
User: zlemini
Functions: rpm sudo
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Preserve user variables when running commands with sudo.

In this case the current user has proxy variable set which allows access to the rpm on the internet but needs root privs to install it.

Running sudo -E preserves the current user proxy var and allows the rpm install to be executed with sudo.

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fileinfo() { RPMQF=$(rpm -qf $1); RPMQL=$(rpm -ql $RPMQF);echo "man page:";whatis $(basename $1); echo "Services:"; echo -e "$RPMQL\n"|grep -P "\.service";echo "Config files:";rpm -qc $RPMQF;echo "Provided by:" $RPMQF; }
2015-05-11 16:46:01
User: nnsense
Functions: basename echo grep rpm whatis
Tags: System Administration services config information
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Listing package man page, services, config files and related rpm of a file, in one alias

Many times I give the same commands in loop to find informations about a file. I use this as an alias to summarize that informations in a single command. Now with variables! :D

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qf2s() { rpm -ql $(rpm -qf $1)|grep -P "\.service"; }
2015-05-11 16:32:16
User: nnsense
Functions: grep rpm
Tags: System Administration conffiles rpm
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Which .service related this file?

I use this as an alias to get all .service files related a single installed file/conf (if it has services, of course).

For rpm based systems ;)

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rpm -e --allmatches gpg-pubkey-1aa043b8-53b2e946
2014-12-09 21:27:08
User: krizzo
Functions: rpm
Tags: GPG rpm yum pubkey
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Remove a specific gpg-pubkey from rpm/yum

This will remove the gpg-pubkey-1aa043b8-53b2e946 from rpm/yum and you'll be prompted to add it back from the given repo.

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rpm -qa gpg-pubkey --qf "%{version}-%{release} %{summary}\n"
2014-12-09 21:23:28
User: krizzo
Functions: rpm
Tags: GPG rpm yum pubkey
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List all gpg-pubkeys for yum

This will list all the gpg keys that were accepted and installed for yum.

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for i in $(cat vulns.txt); do echo $i; rpm -qa ?changelog | grep -i $i; done
2014-04-30 16:11:14
User: sonny108
Functions: cat echo grep rpm
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To Find CVE fix from the rpm log

Found it online and could be very useful

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rpm -qa --queryformat '%{SIZE}\n' | awk '{sum += $1} END {printf("Total size in packages = %4.1f GB\n", sum/1024**3)}'
2013-12-14 20:22:41
User: skytux
Functions: awk rpm
Tags: bash rpm size awk fedora
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Total size in RPM packages

It is not the installed size in files, but the size of RPM packages.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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..

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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.

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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
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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

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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