Fwd: How can i find out, what files a RPM is provding?

[Rick Stevens]

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 at earthlink.net> 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".
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