From: whitnl73@juno.com
To: genright@paradise.net.nz
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rpm description
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:58:33 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030102.162659.134684296.0.whitnl73@juno.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301030832.24656.genright@paradise.net.nz>
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, glenn wrote:
> Im using Mandrake 9. Have been playing with rpm and urpmi a bit.
>
> It would seem that most RPM files have a little description of their contents
> in each. is there an option or method to read these descriptions from the
> console. I've had a look thru the man pages and am just getting more
> confused.
for a package already installed:
rpm -qi <package name>
for a oackage not yet installed:
rpm -qip <filename>
Lawson
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-02 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-02 19:32 rpm description glenn
2003-01-02 20:58 ` whitnl73 [this message]
2003-01-03 3:23 ` Peter
2003-01-03 11:44 ` Frank Roberts - SOTL
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