urpm how to do this?

[mte]

hello,

i've searched the web on this but found nothing. let me give an example:

i'm not sure if i have a package called abc-def-ghi.rpm installed but i know it exists. how would i check if there'se a package called something like abc installed on my system and maybe obtain additional info about this package?

thanks,

matej

[spiedra]

Probably easiest way woulod be to go to your software manager or also known as remove your software and do a search for the package to see if it appears. If it doesn't, then you don't have it.

[Guest anon]

Or you could try

rpm -qa | grep  name_of_package

 

Or you could even try slocate. Run it first as root with this command

slocate -u

to update, then run

slocate file_name_

Or you could use Kpackage to find it. There are loads of other methods for finding files.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

For additional info about the package:

 

rpm -qi full-name-of-package

[mte]

thanks all!

well the reason I was asking this was that using that rpmdrake was a very slow method if I just want to quickly check what version of a rpm I have..

now it's much faster ;)

thanks,

matej