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rpm - RPM Package Manager
rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options]
rpm --querytags
rpm {-V|--verify} [select-options]
[verify-options]
rpm {-i|--install} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE
...
rpm {-U|--upgrade} [install-options]
PACKAGE_FILE ...
rpm {-F|--freshen} [install-options]
PACKAGE_FILE ...
rpm {--reinstall} [install-options]
PACKAGE_FILE ...
rpm {-e|--erase} [--allmatches] [--justdb]
[--nodeps] [--noscripts] [--notriggers] [--test]
PACKAGE_NAME ...
rpm --showrc
rpm --setperms PACKAGE_NAME ...
rpm --setugids PACKAGE_NAME ...
rpm --setcaps PACKAGE_NAME ...
rpm --restore PACKAGE_NAME ...
[PACKAGE_NAME] [-a,--all [SELECTOR]] [-f,--file
FILE] [-g,--group GROUP] [-p,--package
PACKAGE_FILE] [--hdrid SHA1] [--pkgid
MD5] [--tid TID] [--querybynumber
HDRNUM] [--triggeredby PACKAGE_NAME]
[--whatprovides CAPABILITY] [--whatrequires
CAPABILITY] [--whatrecommends CAPABILITY]
[--whatsuggests CAPABILITY] [--whatsupplements
CAPABILITY] [--whatenhances CAPABILITY]
[--whatobsoletes CAPABILITY] [--whatconflicts
CAPABILITY]
General: [--changelog] [--changes] [--dupes]
[-i,--info] [--last] [--qf,--queryformat QUERYFMT]
[--xml]
Dependencies: [--conflicts] [--enhances]
[--obsoletes] [--provides] [--recommends]
[-R,--requires] [--suggests] [--supplements]
Files: [-c,--configfiles] [-d,--docfiles]
[--dump] [--fileclass] [--filecolor]
[--fileprovide][--filerequire] [--filecaps]
[--filesbypkg] [-l,--list] [-s,--state]
[--noartifact] [--noghost] [--noconfig]
Scripts and triggers: [--filetriggers] [--scripts]
[--triggers,--triggerscripts]
[--nodeps] [--nofiles] [--noscripts] [--nodigest]
[--nosignature] [--nolinkto] [--nofiledigest]
[--nosize] [--nouser] [--nogroup] [--nomtime]
[--nomode] [--nordev] [--nocaps]
[--allfiles] [--badreloc] [--excludepath
OLDPATH] [--excludedocs] [--force]
[-h,--hash] [--ignoresize] [--ignorearch]
[--ignoreos] [--includedocs] [--justdb] [--nodeps]
[--nodigest] [--noplugins] [--nocaps] [--noorder]
[--noverify] [--nosignature] [--noscripts]
[--notriggers] [--oldpackage] [--percent] [--prefix
NEWPATH] [--relocate
OLDPATH=NEWPATH] [--replacefiles]
[--replacepkgs] [--test]
rpm is a powerful Package Manager, which can be used to build,
install, query, verify, update, and erase individual software packages. A
package consists of an archive of files and meta-data used to install
and erase the archive files. The meta-data includes helper scripts, file
attributes, and descriptive information about the package. Packages
come in two varieties: binary packages, used to encapsulate software to be
installed, and source packages, containing the source code and recipe
necessary to produce binary packages.
One of the following basic modes must be selected: Query,
Verify, Install/Upgrade/Freshen/Reinstall, Uninstall,
Set Owners/Groups, Show Querytags, and Show
Configuration.
These options can be used in all the different modes.
- -?, --help
- Print a longer usage message than normal.
- --version
- Print a single line containing the version number of rpm being
used.
- --quiet
- Print as little as possible - normally only error messages will be
displayed.
- -v, --verbose
- Print verbose information - normally routine progress messages will be
displayed.
- -vv
- Print lots of ugly debugging information.
- --rcfile FILELIST
- Replace the list of configuration files to be read. Each of the files in
the colon separated FILELIST is read sequentially by rpm for
configuration information. Only the first file in the list must exist, and
tildes will be expanded to the value of $HOME. The default
FILELIST is
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc:/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/rpmrc:/etc/rpmrc:~/.rpmrc.
- --load FILE
- Load an individual macro file.
- --macros FILELIST
- Replace the list of macro files to be loaded. Each of the files in the
colon separated FILELIST is read sequentially by rpm for
macro definitions. Only the first file in the list must exist, and tildes
will be expanded to the value of $HOME. The default FILELIST
is
/usr/lib/rpm/macros:/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.*:/usr/lib/rpm/platform/%{_target}/macros:/usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/*.attr:/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros:/etc/rpm/macros.*:/etc/rpm/macros:/etc/rpm/%{_target}/macros:~/.rpmmacros
- --pipe CMD
- Pipes the output of rpm to the command CMD.
- --dbpath DIRECTORY
- Use the database in DIRECTORY rather than the default path
/var/lib/rpm
- --root DIRECTORY
- Use the file system tree rooted at DIRECTORY for all operations.
Note that this means the database within DIRECTORY will be used for
dependency checks and any scriptlet(s) (e.g. %post if
installing, or %prep if building, a package) will be run after a
chroot(2) to DIRECTORY.
- -D, --define='MACRO EXPR'
- Defines MACRO with value EXPR.
- --undefine='MACRO'
- Undefines MACRO.
- -E, --eval='EXPR'
- Prints macro expansion of EXPR.
More - less often needed - options can be found on the
rpm-misc(8) man page.
In these options, PACKAGE_FILE can be either rpm binary file or
ASCII package manifest (see PACKAGE SELECTION OPTIONS), and may
be specified as an ftp or http URL, in which case the package
will be downloaded before being installed. See FTP/HTTP OPTIONS for
information on rpm's ftp and http client support.
The general form of an rpm install command is
rpm {-i|--install} [install-options]
PACKAGE_FILE ...
This installs a new package.
The general form of an rpm upgrade command is
rpm {-U|--upgrade} [install-options]
PACKAGE_FILE ...
This upgrades or installs the package currently installed to a
newer version. This is the same as install, except all other version(s) of
the package are removed after the new package is installed.
rpm {-F|--freshen} [install-options]
PACKAGE_FILE ...
This will upgrade packages, but only ones for which an earlier
version is installed.
The general form of an rpm reinstall command is
rpm {--reinstall} [install-options]
PACKAGE_FILE ...
This reinstalls a previously installed package.
- --allfiles
- Installs or upgrades all the missingok files in the package, regardless if
they exist.
- --badreloc
- Used with --relocate, permit relocations on all file paths, not
just those OLDPATH's included in the binary package relocation
hint(s).
- --excludepath OLDPATH
- Don't install files whose name begins with OLDPATH.
- --excludeartifacts
- Don't install any files which are marked as artifacts, such as build-id
links.
- --excludedocs
- Don't install any files which are marked as documentation (which includes
man pages and texinfo documents).
- --force
- Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and
--oldpackage.
- -h, --hash
- Print 50 hash marks as the package archive is unpacked. Use with
-v|--verbose for a nicer display.
- --ignoresize
- Don't check mount file systems for sufficient disk space before installing
this package.
- --ignorearch
- Allow installation or upgrading even if the architectures of the binary
package and host don't match.
- --ignoreos
- Allow installation or upgrading even if the operating systems of the
binary package and host don't match.
- --includedocs
- Install documentation files. This is the default behavior.
- --justdb
- Update only the database, not the filesystem.
- --nodigest
- Don't verify package or header digests when reading.
- --nomanifest
- Don't process non-package files as manifests.
- --nosignature
- Don't verify package or header signatures when reading.
- --nodeps
- Don't do a dependency check before installing or upgrading a package.
- --nocaps
- Don't set file capabilities.
- --noorder
- Don't reorder the packages for an install. The list of packages would
normally be reordered to satisfy dependencies.
- --noverify
- Don't perform verify package files prior to installation.
- --noplugins
- Do not load and execute plugins.
- --noscripts, --nopre, --nopost, --nopreun,
--nopostun, --nopretrans, --noposttrans
- Don't execute the scriptlet of the same name. The --noscripts
option is equivalent to
--nopre --nopost --nopreun --nopostun
--nopretrans --noposttrans
and turns off the execution of the corresponding %pre,
%post, %preun, %postun %pretrans, and
%posttrans scriptlet(s).
- --notriggers, --notriggerin, --notriggerun,
--notriggerprein, --notriggerpostun
- Don't execute any trigger scriptlet of the named type. The
--notriggers option is equivalent to
--notriggerprein --notriggerin --notriggerun
--notriggerpostun
and turns off execution of the corresponding %triggerprein,
%triggerin, %triggerun, and %triggerpostun
scriptlet(s).
- --oldpackage
- Allow an upgrade to replace a newer package with an older one.
- --percent
- Print percentages as files are unpacked from the package archive. This is
intended to make rpm easy to run from other tools.
- --prefix NEWPATH
- For relocatable binary packages, translate all file paths that start with
the installation prefix in the package relocation hint(s) to
NEWPATH.
- --relocate OLDPATH=NEWPATH
- For relocatable binary packages, translate all file paths that start with
OLDPATH in the package relocation hint(s) to NEWPATH. This
option can be used repeatedly if several OLDPATH's in the package
are to be relocated.
- --replacefiles
- Install the packages even if they replace files from other, already
installed, packages.
- --replacepkgs
- Install the packages even if some of them are already installed on this
system.
- --test
- Do not install the package, simply check for and report potential
conflicts.
The general form of an rpm erase command is
rpm {-e|--erase} [--allmatches] [--justdb]
[--nodeps] [--noscripts] [--notriggers] [--test]
PACKAGE_NAME ...
The following options may also be used:
- --allmatches
- Remove all versions of the package which match PACKAGE_NAME.
Normally an error is issued if PACKAGE_NAME matches multiple
packages.
- --justdb
- Update only the database, not the filesystem.
- --nodeps
- Don't check dependencies before uninstalling the packages.
- --noscripts, --nopreun, --nopostun
- Don't execute the scriptlet of the same name. The --noscripts
option during package erase is equivalent to
--nopreun --nopostun
and turns off the execution of the corresponding %preun,
and %postun scriptlet(s).
- --notriggers, --notriggerun, --notriggerpostun
- Don't execute any trigger scriptlet of the named type. The
--notriggers option is equivalent to
--notriggerun --notriggerpostun
and turns off execution of the corresponding %triggerun,
and %triggerpostun scriptlet(s).
- --test
- Don't really uninstall anything, just go through the motions. Useful in
conjunction with the -vv option for debugging.
The general form of an rpm query command is
rpm {-q|--query} [select-options]
[query-options]
You may specify the format that package information should be
printed in. To do this, you use the
--qf|--queryformat QUERYFMT
option, followed by the QUERYFMT format string. Query
formats are modified versions of the standard printf(3) formatting.
The format is made up of static strings (which may include standard C
character escapes for newlines, tabs, and other special characters) and
printf(3) type formatters. As rpm already knows the type to
print, the type specifier must be omitted however, and replaced by the name
of the header tag to be printed, enclosed by {} characters. Tag names
are case insensitive, and the leading RPMTAG_ portion of the tag name
may be omitted as well.
Alternate output formats may be requested by following the tag
with :typetag. Currently, the following types are
supported:
- :armor
- Wrap a public key in ASCII armor.
- :arraysize
- Display number of elements in array tags.
- :base64
- Encode binary data using base64.
- :date
- Use strftime(3) "%c" format.
- :day
- Use strftime(3) "%a %b %d %Y" format.
- :depflags
- Format dependency comparison operator.
- :deptype
- Format dependency type.
- :expand
- Perform macro expansion.
- :fflags
- Format file flags.
- :fstate
- Format file state.
- :fstatus
- Format file verify status.
- :hex
- Format in hexadecimal.
- :octal
- Format in octal.
- :humaniec
- Human readable number (in IEC 80000). The suffix K = 1024, M = 1048576,
...
- :humansi
- Human readable number (in SI). The suffix K = 1000, M = 1000000, ...
- :perms
- Format file permissions.
- :pgpsig
- Display signature fingerprint and time.
- :shescape
- Escape single quotes for use in a script.
- :string
- Display string format. (default)
- :tagname
- Display tag name.
- :tagnum
- Display tag number.
- :triggertype
- Display trigger suffix.
- :vflags
- File verification flags.
- :xml
- Wrap data in simple xml markup.
For example, to print only the names of the packages queried, you
could use %{NAME} as the format string. To print the packages name
and distribution information in two columns, you could use
%-30{NAME}%{DISTRIBUTION}. rpm will print a list of all of the
tags it knows about when it is invoked with the --querytags
argument.
There are three subsets of options for querying: package
selection, file selection and information selection.
- PACKAGE_NAME
- Query installed package named PACKAGE_NAME. To specify the package
more precisely the package name may be followed by the version or version
and release both separated by a dash or an architecture name separated by
a dot. See the output of rpm -qa or rpm -qp
PACKAGE_FILE as an example.
- -a, --all [SELECTOR]
- Query all installed packages.
An optional SELECTOR in the form of tag=pattern can be
provided to narrow the selection, for example name="b*" to query
packages whose name starts with "b".
- --dupes
- List duplicated packages.
- -f, --file FILE
- Query package owning FILE.
- --filecaps
- List file names with POSIX1.e capabilities.
- --fileclass
- List file names with their classes (libmagic classification).
- --filecolor
- List file names with their colors (0 for noarch, 1 for 32bit, 2 for 64
bit).
- --fileprovide
- List file names with their provides.
- --filerequire
- List file names with their requires.
- -g, --group GROUP
- Query packages with the group of GROUP.
- --hdrid SHA1
- Query package that contains a given header identifier, i.e. the
SHA1 digest of the immutable header region.
- -p, --package PACKAGE_FILE
- Query an (uninstalled) package PACKAGE_FILE. The
PACKAGE_FILE may be specified as an ftp or http style
URL, in which case the package header will be downloaded and queried. See
FTP/HTTP OPTIONS for information on rpm's ftp and
http client support. The PACKAGE_FILE argument(s), if not a
binary package, will be interpreted as an ASCII package manifest unless
--nomanifest option is used. In manifests, comments are permitted,
starting with a '#', and each line of a package manifest file may include
white space separated glob expressions, including URL's, that will be
expanded to paths that are substituted in place of the package manifest as
additional PACKAGE_FILE arguments to the query.
- --pkgid MD5
- Query package that contains a given package identifier, i.e. the
MD5 digest of the combined header and payload contents.
- --querybynumber HDRNUM
- Query the HDRNUMth database entry directly; this is useful only for
debugging.
- --specfile SPECFILE
- Parse and query SPECFILE as if it were a package. Although not all
the information (e.g. file lists) is available, this type of query
permits rpm to be used to extract information from spec files without
having to write a specfile parser.
- --tid TID
- Query package(s) that have a given TID transaction identifier. A
unix time stamp is currently used as a transaction identifier. All
package(s) installed or erased within a single transaction have a common
identifier.
- --triggeredby PACKAGE_NAME
- Query packages that are triggered by package(s) PACKAGE_NAME.
- --whatobsoletes CAPABILITY
- Query all packages that obsolete CAPABILITY for proper
functioning.
- --whatprovides CAPABILITY
- Query all packages that provide the CAPABILITY capability.
- --whatrequires CAPABILITY
- Query all packages that require CAPABILITY for proper
functioning.
- --whatconflicts CAPABILITY
- Query all packages that conflict with CAPABILITY.
- --whatrecommends CAPABILITY
- Query all packages that recommend CAPABILITY.
- --whatsuggests CAPABILITY
- Query all packages that suggest CAPABILITY.
- --whatsupplements CAPABILITY
- Query all packages that supplement CAPABILITY.
- --whatenhances CAPABILITY
- Query all packages that enhance CAPABILITY.
- --changelog
- Display change information for the package.
- --changes
- Display change information for the package with full time stamps.
- --conflicts
- List capabilities this package conflicts with.
- --dump
- Dump file information as follows (implies -l):
-
path size mtime digest mode owner group isconfig isdoc rdev symlink
- --enhances
- List capabilities enhanced by package(s)
- --filesbypkg
- List all the files in each selected package.
- --filetriggers
- List filetrigger scriptlets from package(s).
- -i, --info
- Display package information, including name, version, and description.
This uses the --queryformat if one was specified.
- --last
- Orders the package listing by install time such that the latest packages
are at the top.
- -l, --list
- List files in package.
- --obsoletes
- List packages this package obsoletes.
- --provides
- List capabilities this package provides.
- --recommends
- List capabilities recommended by package(s)
- -R, --requires
- List capabilities on which this package depends.
- --suggests
- List capabilities suggested by package(s)
- --supplements
- List capabilities supplemented by package(s)
- --scripts
- List the package specific scriptlet(s) that are used as part of the
installation and uninstallation processes.
- -s, --state
- Display the states of files in the package (implies -l). The
state of each file is one of normal, not installed,
or replaced.
- --triggers, --triggerscripts
- Display the trigger scripts, if any, which are contained in the package.
--xml Format package headers as XML.
- -A, --artifactfiles
- Only include artifact files (implies -l).
- -c, --configfiles
- Only include configuration files (implies -l).
- -d, --docfiles
- Only include documentation files (implies -l).
- -L, --licensefiles
- Only include license files (implies -l).
- --noartifact
- Exclude artifact files.
- --noconfig
- Exclude config files.
- --noghost
- Exclude ghost files.
The general form of an rpm verify command is
rpm {-V|--verify} [select-options]
[verify-options]
Verifying a package compares information about the installed files
in the package with information about the files taken from the package
metadata stored in the rpm database. Among other things, verifying compares
the size, digest, permissions, type, owner and group of each file. Any
discrepancies are displayed. Files that were not installed from the package,
for example, documentation files excluded on installation using the
"--excludedocs" option, will be silently ignored.
The package and file selection options are the same as for package
querying (including package manifest files as arguments). Other options
unique to verify mode are:
- --nodeps
- Don't verify dependencies of packages.
- --nodigest
- Don't verify package or header digests when reading.
- --nofiles
- Don't verify any attributes of package files.
- --noscripts
- Don't execute the %verifyscript scriptlet (if any).
- --nosignature
- Don't verify package or header signatures when reading.
- --nolinkto
- --nofiledigest (formerly --nomd5)
- --nosize
- --nouser
- --nogroup
- --nomtime
- --nomode
- --nordev
- Don't verify the corresponding file attribute.
- --nocaps
- Don't verify file capabilities.
The format of the output is a string of 9 characters, a possible
attribute marker:
-
c %config configuration file.
d %doc documentation file.
g %ghost file (i.e. the file contents are not included in the package payload).
l %license license file.
r %readme readme file.
from the package header, followed by the file name. Each of the 9
characters denotes the result of a comparison of attribute(s) of the file to
the value of those attribute(s) recorded in the database. A single
"." (period) means the test passed, while a single
"?" (question mark) indicates the test could not be
performed (e.g. file permissions prevent reading). Otherwise, the
(mnemonically emBoldened) character denotes failure of the
corresponding --verify test:
-
S file Size differs
M Mode differs (includes permissions and file type)
5 digest (formerly MD5 sum) differs
D Device major/minor number mismatch
L readLink(2) path mismatch
U User ownership differs
G Group ownership differs
T mTime differs
P caPabilities differ
- rpm --showrc
- shows the values rpm will use for all of the options are currently
set in rpmrc and macros configuration file(s).
- rpm --setperms PACKAGE_NAME
- sets permissions of files in the given package. Consider using
--restore instead.
- rpm --setugids PACKAGE_NAME
- sets user/group ownership of files in the given package. This command can
change permissions and capabilities of files in that package. In most
cases it is better to use --restore instead.
- rpm --setcaps PACKAGE_NAME
- sets capabilities of files in the given package. Consider using
--restore instead.
- rpm --restore PACKAGE_NAME
- The option restores owner, group, permissions and capabilities of files in
the given package.
- Options --setperms, --setugids, --setcaps and
- --restore are mutually exclusive.
rpm can act as an FTP and/or HTTP client so that packages can be queried
or installed from the internet. Package files for install, upgrade, and query
operations may be specified as an ftp or http style URL:
http://HOST[:PORT]/path/to/package.rpm
ftp://[USER:PASSWORD]@HOST[:PORT]/path/to/package.rpm
If both the user and password are omitted, anonymous ftp is
used.
rpm allows the following options to be used with ftp
URLs:
- rpm allows the following options to be used with
- http and ftp URLs:
- --httpproxy HOST
- The host HOST will be used as a proxy server for all http
and ftp transfers. This option may also be specified by configuring
the macro %_httpproxy.
- --httpport PORT
- The TCP PORT number to use for the http connection on the
proxy http server instead of the default port. This option may also be
specified by configuring the macro %_httpport.
The build modes of rpm are now resident in the /usr/bin/rpmbuild
executable. Install the package containing rpmbuild (usually
rpm-build) and see rpmbuild(8) for documentation of all the
rpm build modes.
-
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc
/usr/lib/rpm/<vendor>/rpmrc
/etc/rpmrc
~/.rpmrc
-
/usr/lib/rpm/macros
/usr/lib/rpm/<vendor>/macros
/etc/rpm/macros
~/.rpmmacros
-
/var/lib/rpm/Basenames
/var/lib/rpm/Conflictname
/var/lib/rpm/Dirnames
/var/lib/rpm/Group
/var/lib/rpm/Installtid
/var/lib/rpm/Name
/var/lib/rpm/Obsoletename
/var/lib/rpm/Packages
/var/lib/rpm/Providename
/var/lib/rpm/Requirename
/var/lib/rpm/Sha1header
/var/lib/rpm/Sigmd5
/var/lib/rpm/Triggername
-
rpm-misc(8),
popt(3),
rpm2cpio(8),
rpmbuild(8),
rpmdb(8),
rpmkeys(8),
rpmsign(8),
rpmspec(8),
rpm --help - as rpm supports customizing the options via
popt aliases it's impossible to guarantee that what's described in the
manual matches what's available.
http://www.rpm.org/ <URL:http://www.rpm.org/>
-
Marc Ewing <marc@redhat.com>
Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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