Re: glibc-2.2 RPM versus glibc-2.1.92-14, please Help !

[Ted Gervais <ve1drg fox nstn ca>]

I sure like that favorite of yours 'rpm -qa | sort | less'..
That is neat! 

Thanks for passing that along. I made a note of it in my book and hope to 
compile a listing of all the 'neat' favourite commands that people use..

Thanks again..



On Thursday 01 February 2001 00:32, you wrote:
> Michael George wrote:
> > > It's very strange! When i use the command rpm -q
> > > glibc-2.2-12.i686.RPM to see if its really installed,
> > > the message say NO.
> >
> > That's because the package is "glibc" not "glibc-2.2-12.i686.RPM".  The
> > *file* is "glibc-2.2-12.i686.RPM", the *package* is "glibc".  I used to
> > make this mistake, too.  Especially when I use file-completion with the
> > "rpm -q" command...
>
> yep.
>
> rpm -qa|grep glibc
>
> or whatever is your friend
>
> The package names sometimes include version information.  It can be very
> confusing.
>
> Another of my old favorites is rpm -qa|sort |less for an alphabetical
> listing of all the packages installed.
>
> HTH
>
> Bret
>
>
>
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Ted Gervais
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