rpm-4.0.3-1.03 (Red Hat Package Manager)

Type of Packages

RPM Package (Binary)
Extension	Description
i386.rpm	Intel 80386 or more
i586.rpm	Pentium or more
i686.rpm	Pentium Pro or more
alpha.rpm	Alpha
ppc.rpm	Power PC (Power Macintosh)
sparc.rpm	SPARC (SUN)
noarch.rpm	Doesn't belong to architecture
SRPM Package (Source)
Extension	Description
src.rpm	Source Package to make binary package
nosrc.rpm	A part of source code (not all)

Installing

# rpm -ivh foo-1.0-1.i386.rpm
foo                       ####################################

Don't do a dependency check before installing
```
# rpm -ivh --nodeps foo-1.0-1.i386.rpm
```
Install the packages even if they replace files from other, already installed, packages.
```
# rpm -ivh --replacefiles foo-1.0-1.i386.rpm
```
Install the packages even if some of them are already installed on this system
```
# rpm -ivh --replacepkgs foo-1.0-1.i386.rpm
```
Allow an upgrade to replace a newer package with an older one.
```
# rpm -ivh --oldpackage foo-1.0-1.i386.rpm
```
Force (Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and --oldpackage)
```
# rpm -ivh --force foo-1.0-1.i386.rpm
```

Uninstalling

# rpm -e foo

Upgrading

# rpm -Uvh foo-2.0-1.i386.rpm
foo                       ####################################

Freshening

# rpm -Fvh foo-1.2-1.i386.rpm
foo                       ####################################

RPM's freshen option works for single packages or a group of packages. If you have just downloaded a large number of different packages, and you only want to upgrade those packages that are already installed on your system, freshening will do the job. If you use freshening, you will not have to deleting any unwanted packages from the group that you downloaded before using RPM.

# rpm -Fvh *.rpm

Query

Show installed package's information

# rpm -qi packagename
# rpm -qip packagename-1.2.rpm

Show all installed files

# rpm -ql packagename
# rpm -qpl packagename-1.2.rpm

Show document file

# rpm -qd packagename
# rpm -qpd packagename-1.2.rpm

Show configuration file

# rpm -qc packagename
# rpm -qpc packagename-1.2.rpm

List packages on which this package depends.

# rpm -qR packagename
# rpm -qpR packagename-1.2.rpm

List the package specific scriptlet(s) that are used as part of the installation and uninstallation processes.
```
# rpm -q --scripts packagename
# rpm -qp --scripts packagename-1.2.rpm
```
Query package owning FILE
```
# rpm -qf FILE(full path)
```
Display the states of files in the package. The state of each file is one of normal, not installed, or replaced.
```
# rpm -qs packagename
```
Show all installed packages
```
# rpm -qa
```
Show all installed packages (order by last installed package)
```
# rpm -qa --last
```

Using SRPM

Build Binary Package into /usr/src/redhat/RPMS from SRPM (Source Package) file

# rpmbuild --rebuild foo-1.2-1.src.rpm

Rebuild package by user

Make /home/hoge/.rpmmacros

%_topdir /home/hoge/RPM
%packager hoge <hoge@here>

Make directories as below,

cd
mkdir RPM
mkdir RPM/BUILD
mkdir RPM/RPMS
mkdir RPM/RPMS/i386
mkdir RPM/RPMS/i586
mkdir RPM/RPMS/i686
mkdir RPM/RPMS/noarch
mkdir RPM/SPECS
mkdir RPM/SOURCES
mkdir RPM/SRPMS

Rebuild
```
$ rpmbuild --rebuild /somewhere/hoge-1.0.src.rpm
```
It expands source file and then compile and make binary RPM file automatically.

Install

$ su
# rpm -ihv RPM/i386/hoge-1.0.i386.rpm
# exit

Install SRPMS and build

If you install SRPMS (src.rpm), it expands source file into top directory.
```
$ rpm -ihv hoge-1.0.src.rpm
```
After this, all sources, patch are placed under SOURCE directory and SPEC file under SPEC directory. What the SPEC file is that a kind of recipe for building RPM file.
Build RPM
```
$ rpmbuild -bb RPM/SPECS/foo.spec
```
Even you don't need to keep spec file under SPEC directory. You can keep original spec file under SPEC directory.
Remove source After building RPM, you can remove source files
```
$ rpmbuild -rmsource --rmspec --clean foo.spec
```

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