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Linux Administration Cookbook
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Linux Administration Cookbook

by Adam K. Dean
December 2018
Beginner
826 pages
22h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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CentOS

CentOS (and Red Hat) have two package managers, with another soon to be added to the equation.

Starting at the top, we have RPM Package Manager (RPM is a recursive acronym), which is the underpinning of package management in Red Hat based systems. It is what you might consider to be a raw package manager, in the sense that it is primordial, and you probably won't be using it directly day to day.

RPM does the following four things:

  • Select
  • Query
  • Verify
  • Install

These options have arguments, and the one that I find myself using the most often is query.

To list all installed packages on your system, use -qa, as follows:

$ rpm -qakernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-862.2.3.el7.x86_64grub2-common-2.02-0.65.el7.centos.2.noarchdmidecode-3.0-5.el7.x86_64 ...
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