RPM list?

orange400 · 10-06-2004, 05:04 PM

I know I can list all the RPMs installed on our system by entering rpm -qa, but what if I wanted to look for a specific RPM? I installed java and don't know what it installed as, so I'm having trouble removing it. If I could do something like rpm <blah> j* | less so that it'd search for all packages beginning with j, that would be excellent.

netopia · 10-06-2004, 05:20 PM

People typically use the grep utility to do this. Grep (with no options) reads from standard input and lists all the lines which contain the pattern you pass it as an argument. So
rpm -qa | grep java
will list all the lines from the output of rpm -qa that contain 'java'. It returned this on my system:

[user@server user]$ rpm -qa | grep java
gcc-java-3.3.3-7
redhat-java-rpm-scripts-1.0.3-2
javamail-20031006-4
gcc34-java-3.4.0-1

Good luck.

Tinkster · 10-06-2004, 05:24 PM

rpm -ql `rpm -qa` | grep -i java

Cheers,
Tink

orange400 · 10-06-2004, 05:24 PM

Nice! It worked beautifully, thanks a lot!