Re: Interrogatinging uninstalled rpms

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• Subject: Re: Interrogatinging uninstalled rpms
• From: Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: 27 May 2004 21:19:51 -0700
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On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 20:14, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> How do I find out info about an rpm that's not installed? rpm seems to 
> want to only work on installed packages.

Just like querying installed packages, but add -p to the normal flags:

rpm -q foobar
rpm -qp foobar-1.0-1.i386.rpm

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/

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