Hello guys. I have a newbish question. When i am about to install an rpm...how can i tell where and what will be installed. Basically how you can see default install location in windows, i want to see that in an rpm file. Ive tried doing: rpm -l dell.rpm ...that did not work. I am using RH9.

Thank you

Normally you wouldn't care about such info, normally the application/files will be installed into the necessary places and, if there is an executable, it will normally be placed in your path. However, for curiosities sake, or just for a custom setup, you can use:
rpm -l (list files)
rpm -l --dump (to dump the files for examination).
rpm --test (test for conflicts)

HTH

Cool

i appreciate your help. I must be doing something wrong. When i type: rpm -l dell.rpm ....i get info on usage etc etc. My syntax must be wrong. Would you give me an example.

Thank you

you are using the FILE name, not the PACKAGE name... use blah instead of blah-1.2.i686.rpm etc...

Hmm..i tried that as well...still getting this:

[root@linuxrh9 dell]# rpm -l dell-2-2
RPM version 4.2
Copyright (C) 1998-2002 - Red Hat, Inc.
This program may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

Usage: rpm [-a|--all] [-f|--file] [-g|--group] [-p|--package] [--specfile]
[--whatrequires] [--whatprovides] [-c|--configfiles] [-d|--docfiles]
[--dump] [-l|--list] [--queryformat=QUERYFORMAT] [-s|--state]
..............................................
and more one usage. I got the rpm name by try installing it again..that's when it told me that dell-2-2 was already installed. very strange

Thanks

Try:
rpm -ql dell-2-2

The q specifies it as a query.

Alright. that was it ...thank you very much