>From: "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Cooker] A PROGRAM LIST
>Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:11:53 -0500 (EST)
>
>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
>
Or for an info file about what is installed:
$ for i in `rpm -qa` ; do rpm -qi $i ; echo ; done > pgmlist
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