A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

Working with RPMs

Use -q to query:
    rpm -qi package_name # display info about the specified package
    rpm -ql package_name # list all the files in the specified package
    rpm -qa # list all installed packages

Add -p if you're querying an RPM file, omit it if you're querying an installed package.