On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, glenn wrote: > Im using Mandrake 9. Have been playing with rpm and urpmi a bit. > > It would seem that most RPM files have a little description of their contents > in each. is there an option or method to read these descriptions from the > console. I've had a look thru the man pages and am just getting more > confused.
for a package already installed: rpm -qi <package name> for a oackage not yet installed: rpm -qip <filename> Lawson -- ---oops--- ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
