To query uninstalled packages in the manner that you are indicating you would do
something like
# rpm -qpl on-cd-rpm-mdrk.i586.rpm
There's got to be a howto or a helpful document somewhere on FINDING FILES. I've given
several
examples of it in the past week. In short, you can use:
1. find
2. locate
You'll need to read the manpages for each of those, but you *might* do something like
either of
these:
1. # find / -name rtime
2. # locate rtime
or, if your file database is not up to date,
2a. # updatedb # to update the file location database
# locate rtime # now you can use the updated database
I'd be interested to know how one could query a bunch of uninstalled packages. For
example,
rpmdrake lets you search through a database of either the description of all packages
or the
filename of all packages. I haven't looked into it at all, but there must be a file
somewhere that
contains this information, and the question becomes how to access it from the command
line? Does
anyone know a way to do this?
Cheers,
j
--- Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I somehow lost rtime, can't find the file anywhere. Also can't find the
> RPM on my 7.2 install CD's either. What RPM contains this?
> Also, how could one use RPM to query un-installed packages by giving a
> filename, ie:
> instead of:
> rpm -q -l installed-pkg-mdrk
> Could I
> rpm -q --?? -l on-cd-rpm-mdrk.i586.rpm
>
> Cheers
> Eric
>
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