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Query which files are installed by an RPM package

Joao — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:58:02 +0000

rpm --query --filesbypkg techrx No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

How to force yum to uninstall a package when you change it’s name

Joao — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:37:01 +0000

Use the obsoletes tag in the specfile. This will cause “package-oldname” to be uninstalled before installing “package-renamed”. Name: package-renamed Obsoletes: package-oldname No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Apache2::Request rpm

Joao — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:58:04 +0000

Not immediately obvious, but if you’re looking for an rpm to install the Apache2::Request module you need perl-libapreq2 (this works in CentOS 5 and I imagine others as well). yum install perl-libapreq2 No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Common RPM commands

Joao — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:40:51 +0000

This is my commonly used rpm command reference

Install/Upgrade a package
rpm -Uvh package.rpm
Install an old version of a package
rpm -Uvh --oldpackage oldpackage.rpm
Query which package installed a given file
rpm -qf /bin/cp
To force a package to overwrite conflicting files
rpm -Uvh --replacefiles package.rpm
To list files owned by an installed package
rpm -ql package
List scripts inside rpm file (pre, post scriptlets)
rpm -qp --scripts /tmp/ods-dsc-1.0-18.13201_centos53.noarch.rpm

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