Red Hat

Friends,

I've middle level understanding in Linux & I was going through the man pages where I got stuck to understand the functionality of -p parameter generally used along with -q & -V

RedHat documentation says -p is used for querying/verifying the uninstalled package file-name passed as an argument to it.

Could someone explain this to me with examples from a live system pls?


-- Souvik

The -p switch allows the rpm command to perform actions on a standalone rpm package, whether it be on the local filesystem or remote (URL).

i.e.

Code:

rpm -qip filename.rpm

Will list the information about the rpm package.

Code:

rpm -qlp filename.rpm

Will list all the files that will be installed by the rpm package.

Code:

 rpm -qp --requires filename.rpm

Will list dependencies requires by the rpm package.

You can find additional information here.

Hope this helps.