On Wed 2003-02-12 at 14:30:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > the most important feature of 8.2's rpmdrake was that you could > see... right there in front of you... what files it would put where > if you installed it. with rpmdrake in 9.0 it's not there.
Choose "maximum information". If it is not there as button (I think that is only there in Cooker), use the context menu (press right mouse button while in the right side of the window. [...] > so, since rpmdrake's become enigmatic, anyone know > what command used to query a package BEFORE istallation to list > every file it's going to install (and where) so i could, for > example, out the output to a text file and read it first? > > (ie command [option] [pakcage] > files.txt) Aside from the example above, you can use rpm for that, presumed you know a server holding the file, e.g. rpm -qlp http://mandrake.secsup.org/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/Apache-ASP-2.37-3mdk.noarch.rpm Learned that myself only this week. :-) HTH, Benjamin.
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