On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Mike wrote:
> First of all thanks to everyone with the help on the cd burner
>
>
> now i am looking for a list of all the programs that are included
> in Mandrake 7.0 with short decriptions ..
>
> is there such a list ??
All the packages have a short description of them you can access by
typing:
rpm -qi <packagename> <---to query an installed package
Example: rpm -qi postfix
rpm -qpi <full filename> <---to query an rpm file
Example: rpm -qpi postfix-19991231-3mdk.i586.rpm
Now, it might not be pretty, but if you wanted to see the info on every
package in the distribution with one command you could switch to the RPMs
directory in the distribution and type:
rpm -qpi * | more
Or you could instead put the text into a file in your home directory that
you can easily browse with less or a text editor, by typing:
rpm -qpi * > ~/packageinfo
I hope that helps.
-Tom
