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listing packages (was Re: finger in 4.1?)
- To: Paul A Sand <http://www.hopper.unh.edu/~pas>
- Subject: listing packages (was Re: finger in 4.1?)
- From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:12:56 -0800
- In-Reply-To: <199703041846.http://www.gravity.unh.edu/~NAA06587>
- References: <199703041846.http://www.gravity.unh.edu/~NAA06587>
> From: Paul A Sand <http://www.hopper.unh.edu/~pas>
> Date: Tue Mar 4, 1:46pm
>
> > . . . I admit that I have not found a way to query or list the contents
> > of an uninstalled package using the "rpm" command.
>
> To list the contents of an uninstalled packages:
>
> rpm -qilp whatever.rpm
>
> I think both these answers can be extracted from the man page
> for rpm.
I tried looking at the man page and on www.redhat.com and I could not find
a way to list the contents of an uninstalled package. I thought that "rpm
-q -i -l" would've done it from what I saw in the man page, but it didn't
work. Thanks for your help!