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RPM command is used for installing, uninstalling, upgrading, querying, listing, and checking RPM packages on your Linux system.
RPM stands for Red Hat Package Manager.
With root privilege, you can use the rpm command with appropriate options to manage the RPM software packages.
In this article, let us review 15 practical examples of rpm command.
Let us take an rpm of Mysql Client and run through all our examples.
RPM filename has packagename, version, release and architecture name.
For example, In the MySQL-client-3.23.57-1.i386.rpm file:
When you install a RPM, it checks whether your system is suitable for the software the RPM package contains, figures out where to install the files located inside the rpm package, installs them on your system, and adds that piece of software into its database of installed RPM packages.
The following rpm command installs Mysql client package.
# rpm -ivh MySQL-client-3.23.57-1.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:MySQL-client ########################################### [100%]
rpm command and options
You can also use dpkg on Debian, pkgadd on Solaris, depot on HP-UX to install packages.
You can use rpm command to query all the packages installed in your system.
# rpm -qa cdrecord-2.01-10.7.el5 bluez-libs-3.7-1.1 setarch-2.0-1.1 . .
To identify whether a particular rpm package is installed on your system, combine rpm and grep command as shown below. Following command checks whether cdrecord package is installed on your system.
# rpm -qa | grep 'cdrecord'
The above example lists all currently installed package. After installation of a package to check the installation, you can query a particular package and verify as shown below.
# rpm -q MySQL-client MySQL-client-3.23.57-1 # rpm -q MySQL package MySQL is not installed
Note: To query a package, you should specify the exact package name. If the package name is incorrect, then rpm command will report that the package is not installed.
Rpm command provides an option –queryformat, which allows you to give the header tag names, to list the packages. Enclose the header tag with in {}.
# rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name-%{version}-%{release} %{size}/n' cdrecord-2.01-10.7 12324 bluez-libs-3.7-1.1 5634 setarch-2.0-1.1 235563 . . #
Let us say, you have list of files and you would want to know which package owns all these files. rpm command has options to achieve this.
The following example shows that /usr/bin/mysqlaccess file is part of the MySQL-client-3.23.57-1 rpm.
# rpm -qf /usr/bin/mysqlaccess MySQL-client-3.23.57-1
Use the following to know the list of documentations, for a package that owns a file. The following command, gives the location of all the manual pages related to mysql package.
# rpm -qdf /usr/bin/mysqlaccess /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mysqlaccess.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mysqladmin.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mysqldump.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mysqlshow.1.gz
rpm command provides a lot of information about the installed pacakges.
# rpm -qip MySQL-client-3.23.57-1.i386.rpm Name : MySQL-client Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 3.23.57 Vendor: MySQL AB Release : 1 Build Date: Mon 09 Jun 2003 11:08:28 PM CEST Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: build.mysql.com Group : Applications/Databases Source RPM: MySQL-3.23.57-1.src.rpm Size : 5305109 License: GPL / LGPL Signature : (none) Packager : Lenz Grimmer URL : http://www.mysql.com/ Summary : MySQL - Client Description : This package contains the standard MySQL clients.
To list the content of a RPM package, use the following command, which will list out the files without extracting into the local directory folder.
$ rpm -qlp ovpc-2.1.10.rpm /usr/bin/mysqlaccess /usr/bin/mysqldata /usr/bin/mysqlperm . . /usr/bin/mysqladmin
You can also extract files from RPM package using rpm2cpio as we discussed earlier.
To view the list of packages on which this package depends,
# rpm -qRp MySQL-client-3.23.57-1.i386.rpm /bin/sh /usr/bin/perl
The following command is to find state (installed, replaced or normal) for all the files in a RPM package.
# rpm -qsp MySQL-client-3.23.57-1.i386.rpm normal /usr/bin/msql2mysql normal /usr/bin/mysql normal /usr/bin/mysql_find_rows normal /usr/bin/mysqlaccess normal /usr/bin/mysqladmin normal /usr/bin/mysqlbinlog normal /usr/bin/mysqlcheck normal /usr/bin/mysqldump normal /usr/bin/mysqlimport normal /usr/bin/mysqlshow normal /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz normal /usr/share/man/man1/mysqlaccess.1.gz normal /usr/share/man/man1/mysqladmin.1.gz normal /usr/share/man/man1/mysqldump.1.gz normal /usr/share/man/man1/mysqlshow.1.gz
Verifying a package compares information about the installed files in the package with information about the files taken from the package metadata stored in the rpm database. In the following command, -v is for verification and -p option is used to specify a package name to verify.
# rpm -vp MySQL-client-3.23.57-1.i386.rpm S.5....T c /usr/bin/msql2mysql S.5....T c /usr/bin/mysql S.5....T c /usr/bin/mysql_find_rows S.5....T c /usr/bin/mysqlaccess
The character in the above output denotes the following:
The following command verify the package which owns the given filename.
# rpm -vf /usr/bin/mysqlaccess S.5....T c /usr/bin/mysql #
Upgrading a package is similar to installing one, but RPM automatically un-installs existing versions of the package before installing the new one. If an old version of the package is not found, the upgrade option will still install it.
# rpm -Uvh MySQL-client-3.23.57-1.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:MySQL-client ###########################################
To remove an installed rpm package using -e as shown below. After uninstallation, you can query using rpm -qa and verify the uninstallation.
# rpm -ev MySQL-client
The following command verifies all the installed packages.
# rpm -va S.5....T c /etc/issue S.5....T c /etc/issue.net S.5....T c /var/service/imap/ssl/seed S.5....T c /home/httpd/html/horde/ingo/config/backends.php . . S.5....T c /home/httpd/html/horde/ingo/config/prefs.php S.5....T c /etc/printcap