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RPM
General Information
RPM (RedHat Package Manager) has some very useful commands, despite having yum as a frontend.
Checklist
- Enterprise Linux Distro (Red Hat based)
Query Commands
Some useful commands for querying the RPM database and packages.
Determine if a package is installed
rpm -q postfix
Find duplicate packages
rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}.%{arch}\n" | sort | uniq -d
Show the contents of a RPM file on the local system that is not installed
rpm -qlp <package-name>.rpm