topic Re: software list in Operating System - Linux

software list

Kyle D. Harris — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 14:10:13 GMT

I used to work on HP-UX and there was a command that listed software installed called "swinstall" . Redhat doesn't seem to have that command. Does anybody know a command in Redhat that lists all the software installed on a particular box? Thanks.

Kyle

Re: software list

John Poff — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 14:17:07 GMT

Hi,

RedHat Linux uses the 'rpm' command. Try this:

rpm -qa

to list all the installed RPMs on a box. Take a look at the man page for rpm. It is powerful, and you'll need to know it to administer a RedHat system.

JP

Re: software list

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 14:18:35 GMT

The rpm command works just like swinstall/swlist/swremove

Accept its one command and all the options are totally different.

rpm -i packagename installs

rpm -q lets you do swlist queries

Stuff like that.

SEP

Re: software list

Kyle D. Harris — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 14:22:42 GMT

Allrighty, thanks guys!

Re: software list

Erich Huebner_1 — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 02:07:03 GMT

rpm -qa | sort > /root/packages

Re: software list

Caesar_3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 20:14:53 GMT

Hello!

The swXXXX was in hp it's software ...
In RH you have rpm (RH package manager)
You use rpm -q (quiery)
And you have -a for all packages
also you can specify the package name.

Caesar