RPM Package Management

DNF

DNF is a rewrite of yum, DNF replaced YUM as the default package manager in Fedora 22.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNF_(software)

yum

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/yum_(software)

yum-utils

$ yum install yum-utils

repoquery

--plugins: enable YUM plugin support.

$ repoquery --query --list --plugins PACKAGE

rpm

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager
• http://linux.die.net/man/8/rpm
• which package provides FILE?

$ rpm --query -f FILE

• list the contents of PACKAGE:

$ rpm --query PACKAGE
$ rpm --query --queryformat "[%{=NAME}-%{=VERSION}-%{=RELEASE}:\t%-50{FILENAMES} %10{FILESIZES}\n]" PACKAGE