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

[Rick Stevens]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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".

DOH!  "rpm -ql" not "-qf" (what the heck was I thinking?)
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