Querying RPMs

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Querying, Installing and upgrading RPMs

Before we install or upgrade any RPM, we should know whether the desired package is already installed on our system or not. The RPM query gives us the detailed information about the package.

Query

This mode of RPM has many utilities. In simplest form this can be used to find the version of the installed package. The syntax for a simple query is as follows:

rpm -q packagename

Example:

# rpm -q xmms

Xmms-2.6.26-2