[aclug-L] Re: rpm listings

[Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Answer:

   rpm -qa

I wanted to find out which RPMs on the CDROM (RH 6.0) had not been loaded.
Answer:

   rpm -qa | sort >/tmp/$$
   ls /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS | sed 's/\.[^.]*\.rpm$//' | comm -23 - /tmp/$$
   rm /tmp/$$

(Command line lesson du jour. I hear bash can do this all in one line, with
no tmp file.)

Found the answer on Page 54 of "Maximum RPM". There's a link on www.rpm.org
to download a postscript copy of the whole book.

www.rpm.org has links to related software, but they're mostly GUI's --
useless to program with.

phrostie wrote:
> 
> have you looked at gliint?
> 
> Tom Hull wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone tell me how to get a complete list of all the RPM packages
> > installed on my machine? (Red Hat 6.0)
> >
> > I've read the man page 5-10 times, and tried every documented -q option,
> > and still don't have a clue. I suppose one could write a perl script to
> > hack into the database.

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