rpm info

Florian La Roche laroche at redhat.com
Thu Aug 26 15:36:54 UTC 2004


On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:08:46AM -0400, Sydney Faria wrote:
> Is there a way to take an rpm and figure out just exactly what and where it
> is going to install, and delete before actually using the rpm to install an
> update?  On my Fedorora I have Qt 3.3.3 but I could not find the
> /tools/designer/examples/colortool directory - actually it is not there, but
> I did find this designer tutorial in the Windows version of the Qt package.
> So if I install the newest version without using the rpm I might be
> upsetting other dependencies such as KDE.  Any hints/clues will be greatly
> appreciated... Sydney

try this:
	rpm -qplv <rpmfile>
or maybe:
	rpm -q --scripts <rpmfile>

greetings,

Florian La Roche





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