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Re: What's in uninstalled rpm?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sma202@omicron.ACF.NYU.EDU)
Tue Nov 3 17:04:23 1998
From: sma202@omicron.ACF.NYU.EDU
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 17:02:01 -0500 (EST)
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do the following:
rpm -q -l -p packagewhatever.rpm
-l will list the files
-p is the package to be queried (-q)
you can add -i to see what the package does.
this is in the man pages
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, John Lewis wrote:
> Fred Lenk asked
>
> > Is there a command to get a list of files from an .rpm
> > file which has not been installed? I checked the man
> > pages and tried a couple things but couldn't get a list
> > of files that would be installed if the package were
> > installed.
>
> Have you tried using the 'mc'shell. Navigate to the rpm you are interested in
> and double click on it. You will be able to see exactly what is included in the
> rpm, read any documentation and in many cases even instal or update the files.
>
> I would be lost without this shell. Beats trying to mv, cp etc from the command
> line, comes in full screen and x versions.
>
>
>
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