Mandriva Package Management

Mandriva Package Management, see also First Time Linux

GUI Tool

Mandriva Control Center → rpmdrake

CUI

Command	What it tells you
rpm -qa	list all installed packages
rpm -qa | grep -i office	search for a certain installed package
rpm -qf /path/to/file	similar to urpmf, but searches on installed system
rpm2cpio package.rpm | cpio -div	extract the whole contents from a downloaded rpm
urpmc	updates the local data about available packages in all media
urpmf xxxx.so	find individual files in rpm packages
urpmf /path/to/file	which package has installed "file*" in /path/to
urpme xxx	removes the package xxx (and those that depend on it)
urpmi program	install program
urpmi --auto-select	automatically select upgradeable packages
urpmi --auto-select --update	To update the packages based on the new lists
urpmi --auto-update	merge urpmi.update -a and urpmi --auto-select
urpmi --fuzzy --test xxx	shows all rpms that match string "xxx".
urpmi --keep xxx.rpm	installs package xxx.rpm from the current directory and it's dependencies, but if anything has to be removed it will not
urpmi --keep --auto --auto-select	update all packages from your enabled media, but don't remove anything: just tell if anything didn't work
urpmi --no-install freemind	downloads all the rpms but doesn't install them. However this doesn't just get the package you ask for, it also gets the dependencies as well
urpmi --test --keep --auto --auto-select	update all packages from your enabled media but don't install or remove anything, just tell if it will work
urpmi --update --auto-select	installs available updates from your enabled media
urpmi.update -a	If a new software package is put into a repository urpmi needs to know about it. With the command urpmi.update, urpmi gets to know about these new packages.
urpmi.update updates	updates the local data about available packages in the medium "updates"
urpmq xmms	query the urpmi database to see if there is an RPM for a program to install
urpmq --changelog xxx.rpm	print changelog of the package in the current directory
urpmq -i stellarium	get a package description
urpmq -i xxx.rpm	info on the package xxx.rpm in the current directory
urpmq -il xxx.rpm	info on the package xxx.rpm in the current directory & list of files that it installs
urpmq -l barrage	see what files are inside the package
urpmq --list-url	list the media currently being used
urpmq --sources inkscape	just display the url where the package lives
urpmq --whatrequires xxx.rpm	which package(s) require(s) the xxx.rpm in the current directory
wget $(urpmq --sources freemind)	download a single package without its dependencies

Refer to Various Linux Package Operations