Displaying information on non-installed RPM package?

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Gulbahar picture Gulbahar · Jun 9, 2010 · Viewed 80.1k times · Source

I googled for this, but couldn't find how to query a non-installed RPM file for its information:

# rpm -qa blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm
# 
# rpm -qi blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm
package blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm is not installed
# 
# rpm -q blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm
package blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm is not installed
# 
# rpm --info  blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm
RPM version 4.8.0
Copyright (C) 1998-2002 - Red Hat, Inc.
This program may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

Usage: rpm [-aKfgpWHqVcdilsKiv?] [-a|--all] [-f|--file] [-g|--group] [-p|--package] [-W|--ftswalk] [--pkgid] [--hdrid] [--fileid]
        [--specfile] [--triggeredby] [--whatrequires] [--whatprovides] [--nomanifest] [-c|--configfiles] [-d|--docfiles]
        [--dump] [-l|--list] [--queryformat=QUERYFORMAT] [-s|--state] [--nofiledigest] [--nomd5] [--nofiles] [--nodeps]
[...]

Is there a command to read information out of non-installed RPM file?

Answer

crazyscot picture crazyscot · Jun 9, 2010

rpm -qip foo.rpm

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