Retrieve list of all software/applications/packages installed on Yocto

Retrieve list of all software/applications/packages installed on Yocto

[Stanciu, Alin]

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Hello,

I would simply like to know how to obtain a list of all software packages/products (basically all applications) running in my Yocto build.

Can this be done via a recipe? How can I find out whether my build has a recipe? What are other ways are there to get the listing?

Thanks


























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Re: Retrieve list of all software/applications/packages installed on Yocto

[Brian Hutchinson]

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On Jul 1, 2015 7:34 AM, "Stanciu, Alin" <Alin.Stanciu@spirent.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I would simply like to know how to obtain a list of all software
packages/products (basically all applications) running in my Yocto build.
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> Can this be done via a recipe? How can I find out whether my build has a
recipe? What are other ways are there to get the listing?
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> Thanks
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> Spirent Communications plc
> Northwood Park, Gatwick Road, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 9XN, United
Kingdom.
> Tel No. +44 (0) 1293 767676
> Fax No. +44 (0) 1293 767677
>
> Registered in England Number 470893
> Registered at Northwood Park, Gatwick Road, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10
9XN, United Kingdom.
>
> Or if within the US,
>
> Spirent Communications,
> 27349 Agoura Road, Calabasas, CA, 91301, USA.
> Tel No. 1-818-676- 2300
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When you build your image ... a manifest file will contain the list of
packages (with versions) contained in that image.

If you have a running system, you can generate kind of the same list
(depending on which package manager is being used - if any) by running a
command like opkg list-installed.

Regards,

Brian

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Re: Retrieve list of all software/applications/packages installed on Yocto

[Leonardo Sandoval]

On 07/01/2015 06:41 AM, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2015 7:34 AM, "Stanciu, Alin" <Alin.Stanciu@spirent.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I would simply like to know how to obtain a list of all software
> packages/products (basically all applications) running in my Yocto build.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can this be done via a recipe? How can I find out whether my build has a
> recipe? What are other ways are there to get the listing?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
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>>
>> Spirent Communications e-mail confidentiality.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> This e-mail contains confidential and / or privileged information
> belonging to Spirent Communications plc, its affiliates and / or
> subsidiaries. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby
> notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution and / or the taking of
> any action based upon reliance on the contents of this transmission is
> strictly forbidden. If you have received this message in error please
> notify the sender by return e-mail and delete it from your system.
>>
>> Spirent Communications plc
>> Northwood Park, Gatwick Road, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 9XN, United
> Kingdom.
>> Tel No. +44 (0) 1293 767676
>> Fax No. +44 (0) 1293 767677
>>
>> Registered in England Number 470893
>> Registered at Northwood Park, Gatwick Road, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10
> 9XN, United Kingdom.
>>
>> Or if within the US,
>>
>> Spirent Communications,
>> 27349 Agoura Road, Calabasas, CA, 91301, USA.
>> Tel No. 1-818-676- 2300
>>
>> --
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>
> When you build your image ... a manifest file will contain the list of
> packages (with versions) contained in that image.
>
> If you have a running system, you can generate kind of the same list
> (depending on which package manager is being used - if any) by running a
> command like opkg list-installed.
>
In case one needs a more detail on the image, you can enable 
*buildhistory* class. More info on

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#maintaining-build-output-quality

and specifically this

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#understanding-what-the-build-history-contains


> Regards,
>
> Brian
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Re: Retrieve list of all software/applications/packages installed on Yocto

[Brian Hutchinson]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Stanciu, Alin <Alin.Stanciu@spirent.com> wrote:
> Thank you Brian, this is very useful.
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> I don’t have either opkg or dpkg installed so I’m using rpm. It’s useful in
> the sense I can get comprehensive information on all packages installed, as
> well as all files for each package:
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> ·         rpm –qa (all packages)
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> ·         rpm -qi <package_name>(detailed package information)
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> ·         rpm -ql <package_name>( package files)
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> This is almost too useful…in the sense that I need a more high-level
> description/listing off the packages installed (or even a more succinct
> listing, if you will). Think of it as a Linux (or in this case Yocto)
> equivalent of Control Panel -> Programs and Features in Windows.
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> Are you aware of an easy way to do this?
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On a running system?  The way I usually research things is to use sites like:

http://recipes.yoctoproject.org/rrs/recipes/1.9/M2/
http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layers/

If you are running X with a window manager of some type then yea, you
can install any number of GUI front ends to the package manager and do
a similiar thing as your windows example.  My embedded boxes aren't
running X, they are just console based systems that run a web server.

If you run Toaster (used to be HOB) you can have a nice GUI on your
development host that will unwind all the metatdata of all possible
packages and display some of the same info and look at dependencies,
sizes etc.  It will allow you to do "what if" cases like "If I want
bluez, what other packages get pulled in an how much bigger will my
flash image be".

On a running system if you need more info about packages and you don't
have a GUI front end ... I would think you would have to use the
package manager cmd line to see what's installed and if you need more
info on that package then use the name of it and visit some of the
sites like I listed above.

That's all I can think of at the moment.  I'm sure there are a lot of
folks smarter than me that hopefully will chime in with better tricks.

Regards,

Brian