How to list the contents of a package using YUM?

Question

I know how to use rpm to list the contents of a package (rpm -qpil package.rpm). However, this requires knowing the location of the .rpm file on the filesystem. A more elegant solution would be to use the package manager, which in my case is YUM. How can YUM be used to achieve this?

Answer 1

There is a package called yum-utils that builds on YUM and contains a tool called repoquery that can do this.

$ repoquery --help | grep -E "list\ files" 
  -l, --list            list files in this package/group

Combined into one example:

$ repoquery -l time
/usr/bin/time
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/README
/usr/share/info/time.info.gz

On at least one RH system, with rpm v4.8.0, yum v3.2.29, and repoquery v0.0.11, repoquery -l rpm prints nothing.

If you are having this issue, try adding the --installed flag: repoquery --installed -l rpm.

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DNF Update:

To use dnf instead of yum-utils, use the following command:

$ dnf repoquery -l time
/usr/bin/time
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/time-1.7/README
/usr/share/info/time.info.gz

Answer 2

rpm -ql [packageName]

Example

# rpm -ql php-fpm

/etc/php-fpm.conf
/etc/php-fpm.d
/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
/etc/sysconfig/php-fpm
...
/run/php-fpm
/usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm.service
/usr/sbin/php-fpm
/usr/share/doc/php-fpm-5.6.0
/usr/share/man/man8/php-fpm.8.gz
...
/var/lib/php/sessions
/var/log/php-fpm

No need to install yum-utils, or to know the location of the rpm file.

Answer 3

$ yum install -y yum-utils

$ repoquery -l packagename

Answer 4

I don't think you can list the contents of a package using yum, but if you have the .rpm file on your local system (as will most likely be the case for all installed packages), you can use the rpm command to list the contents of that package like so:

rpm -qlp /path/to/fileToList.rpm

If you don't have the package file (.rpm), but you have the package installed, try this:

rpm -ql packageName

Answer 5

There are several good answers here, so let me provide a terrible one:

: you can type in anything below, doesnt have to match anything

yum whatprovides "me with a life"

: result of the above (some liberties taken with spacing):

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
base | 3.6 kB 00:00 
extras | 3.4 kB 00:00 
updates | 3.4 kB 00:00 
(1/4): extras/7/x86_64/primary_db | 166 kB 00:00 
(2/4): base/7/x86_64/group_gz | 155 kB 00:00 
(3/4): updates/7/x86_64/primary_db | 9.1 MB 00:04 
(4/4): base/7/x86_64/primary_db | 5.3 MB 00:05 
Determining fastest mirrors
 * base: mirrors.xmission.com
 * extras: mirrors.xmission.com
 * updates: mirrors.xmission.com
base/7/x86_64/filelists_db | 6.2 MB 00:02 
extras/7/x86_64/filelists_db | 468 kB 00:00 
updates/7/x86_64/filelists_db | 5.3 MB 00:01 
No matches found

: the key result above is that "primary_db" files were downloaded

: filelists are downloaded EVEN IF you have keepcache=0 in your yum.conf

: note you can limit this to "primary_db.sqlite" if you really want

find /var/cache/yum -name '*.sqlite'

: if you download/install a new repo, run the exact same command again
: to get the databases for the new repo

: if you know sqlite you can stop reading here

: if not heres a sample command to dump the contents

echo 'SELECT packages.name, GROUP_CONCAT(files.name, ", ") AS files FROM files JOIN packages ON (files.pkgKey = packages.pkgKey) GROUP BY packages.name LIMIT 10;' | sqlite3 -line /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/base/gen/primary_db.sqlite 

: remove "LIMIT 10" above for the whole list

: format chosen for proof-of-concept purposes, probably can be improved a lot

Answer 6

Yum doesn't have it's own package type. Yum operates and helps manage RPMs. So, you can use yum to list the available RPMs and then run the rpm -qlp command to see the contents of that package.

Answer 7

currently reopquery is integrated into dnf and yum, so typing:

dnf repoquery -l <pkg-name>

will list package contents from a remote repository (even for the packages that are not installed yet)

meaning installing a separate dnf-utils or yum-utils package is no longer required for the functionality as it is now being supported natively.

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for listing installed or local (*.rpm files) packages' contents there is rpm -ql

i don't think it is possible with yum org dnf (not repoquery subcommand)

please correct me if i am wrong