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Commands using rpm

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rpm -Va | grep -v "\.\.\.\.\.\.\.T"
2009-03-24 19:32:41
User: llama
Functions: grep rpm
Tags: rpm
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Strip out time difference entries when verifying rpms on x86_64 RHEL systems
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rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME} %{ARCH}\n"
2009-03-18 15:19:21
User: angrox
Functions: rpm
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Lists architecture of installed RPMs

Lists all installed RPM packages with name and architecture, which is useful to check for compability packages (+ required i386 packages) on a 64bit system.

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rpm -qa --queryformat '%{installtime} \"%{vendor}\" %{name}-%{version}-%{release} %{installtime:date}\n' | grep "Thu 05 Mar"
2009-03-17 13:38:20
User: mpb
Functions: grep rpm
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Display a list of RPMs installed on a particular date

Find out which RPMs were installed on a particular date.

These would (naturally) include update RPMs.

This example shows searching for "Thu 05 Mar" (with grep).

Alternatively, pipe it to less so you can search inside less (with less's neat text highlighting of the search term):

rpm -qa --queryformat '%{installtime} \"%{vendor}\" %{name}-%{version}-%{release} %{installtime:date}\n' | less # (this example) search term: Thu 05 Mar

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rpm -qa --qf '%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n' | sort -nr | nl | head -6 # six largest RPMs
2009-03-15 22:18:17
User: mpb
Functions: head nl rpm sort
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Display 6 largest installed RPMs sorted by size (descending)

Low on disk space? Check the largest installed RPMs for delete canditates.

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rpm -qa \*code\*
2009-03-11 21:16:23
User: alcik
Functions: rpm
Tags: rpm
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Search through all installed packages names (on RPM systems)

You can use wildcard with rpm search but you have to do 2 things:

1. use "-a" switch (means "all") with query ("-q") switch - argument is a pattern to use while searching for package names of all installed packages

2. protect wildcards, so that shell could not eat them - escape it with backslash ("\") or enclose all pattern between apostrophes ("'"):

rpm -qa 'co*de'

As you can see above it is possible to insert wildcards into middle of the pattern.

If you want, you can add "-i" or another rpm query options, "-i" will print package information for all installed packages matching pattern.

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rpm -qif `which more`
2009-02-27 08:59:07
User: alcik
Functions: rpm
Tags: rpm which
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Find out what package some command belongs to (on RPM systems)

Replace 'more' command with any command which is in your PATH.

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rpm -qa | grep PACKAGENAME | xargs rpm -q --filesbypkg
2009-02-26 14:32:12
User: piscue
Functions: grep rpm xargs
Tags: rpm package remember
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search installed files of package, that doesn't remember his name well. On rpm systems

rpm, sometimes, is not wildcard friendly. To search files installed from package this could be useful.

change PACKAGENAME to any package do you want to search

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rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n'|egrep 'compat|glibc|gcc|libst|binu'|sort
2009-02-23 10:17:47
User: ovalerio
Functions: rpm
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Get information about libraries currently installed on a system.

This command is very helpful when we need to duplicate a test scenario and first we want to find out the installed libraries together with the version and release numbers and architecture. (look example)

Command can be tuned by choosing just the names of libraries we are interested in. For example glibc and gcc.

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rpm -qa --queryformat 'Installed on %{INSTALLTIME:date}\t%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}: %{SUMMARY}\n'
2009-02-20 22:01:42
User: chrisclymer
Functions: rpm
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Query for installed packages on RHEL boxes, and format the output nicely
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rpm -e --allmatches filename.rpm
2009-02-12 23:09:24
User: sohaileo
Functions: rpm
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Remove multiple same rpm packages

If somehow if you get more than 1 same name rpm package install, then it cannot be removed by using simple rpm -e as it gives you more than one rpm matches error. The --matches will help to remove all the same name rpm packages.

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rpm -qlp <package.rpm>
2009-02-07 23:11:59
User: al3x
Functions: rpm
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check rpm pkg content w/o installation

allows to check inside rpm file w/o installing it

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rpm -qa --qf '%{name}'
2009-02-07 18:42:32
User: mnikhil
Functions: rpm
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To get the different name field nformation on rpm packages
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rpm -qa --last
2009-02-07 18:41:52
User: mnikhil
Functions: rpm
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To get the latest information on rpm packages
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rpm --query --filesbypackage [packagename]
2009-02-05 19:35:29
User: wwest4
Functions: rpm
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List files in an RPM package
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find $PWD -exec rpm --query -f {} \; | sort -u | grep -v "not owned"
2009-02-05 19:33:43
User: wwest4
Functions: find grep rpm sort
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List RPM packages installed in current tree

shows all RPMs with files in the current directory & its subdirectories.

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rpm -qa --last
2009-02-05 16:00:56
User: systemj
Functions: rpm
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show the date every rpm was installed

the newest rpms are at the top; individual packages can also be queried this way:

rpm --last -q package

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