Jeff Vian wrote:
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:12 -0600, David Hoffman wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:03:30 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Don't you have to install an additional .rpm to get this functionality? I had to, just in case the .rpm was not installed on my system. Details are in the archive on installation of the appropriate files.
I've never heard that. The query function is a standard function of RPM. If you have RPM installed (and you should) then you should be able to perform any queries of your RPM packages.
Try rpm -? for additional help.
rpm -q = query mode --whatprovides is an argument to the query mode that tells RPM to look at it's own data and tell you which packages provided a particular file.
For example, I want to know what package I installed that provided me with libmysqlclient.so.10:
rpm -q --whatprovides libmysqlclient.so.10
Then it gives me back an answer: MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0
So any file that is installed from an RPM package can be queried this way to let you know which package installed the file.
I didn't have to add any additional packages to be able to do this query -- or at least none that I intentionally added.
No extra packages are needed for the query, but the query will also only work, as has been stated, only with files that were installed from RPM. If the file was put in the system from CPAN or some other source the rpm query should fail to produce output about it.
Also, the full path to the file must be provided in the query since that
is the way the package identifies the file.
I think the OP was asking which files a given RPM has in it.
If the RPM has been installed, then use "rpm -qf rpmname". If the RPM HASN'T been installed yet, then "rpm -qf -p /path/to/rpmfile.rpm"
You might also find it interesting to use "-qif" rather than just "-qf".
DOH! "rpm -ql" not "-qf" (what the heck was I thinking?)
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