How to list the contents of a package using YUM?

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Lorin Hochstein picture Lorin Hochstein · Sep 19, 2008 · Viewed 361.9k times · Source

I know how to use rpm to list the contents of a package (rpm -qpil package.rpm). However, this requires knowing the location of the .rpm file on the filesystem. A more elegant solution would be to use the package manager, which in my case is YUM. How can YUM be used to achieve this?

Answer

Thomas Vander Stichele picture Thomas Vander Stichele · Sep 20, 2008

There is a package called yum-utils that builds on YUM and contains a tool called repoquery that can do this.

$ repoquery --help | grep -E "list\ files" 
  -l, --list            list files in this package/group

Combined into one example:

$ repoquery -l time
/usr/bin/time
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/README
/usr/share/info/time.info.gz

On at least one RH system, with rpm v4.8.0, yum v3.2.29, and repoquery v0.0.11, repoquery -l rpm prints nothing.

If you are having this issue, try adding the --installed flag: repoquery --installed -l rpm.

DNF Update:

To use dnf instead of yum-utils, use the following command:

$ dnf repoquery -l time
/usr/bin/time
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/README
/usr/share/info/time.info.gz

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