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Command | rpm | Purpose | Executes the RPM Package Manager | Synopsis | rpm [options] rpm {-q|—query} [select-options] [query-options] rpm {-e|—erase} PACKAGE_NAME |
Description: The rpm is a powerful Package Manager, which can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and erase individual software packages.
General Options:
-i | Installs a package (Usually used with the below specified option to ensure the package is installed) | -v | Print verbose information normally routine progress messages will be displayed. | -h | Print 50 hash marks as the package archive is unpacked. | -nodeps | Don't do a dependency check before installing or upgrading a package. |
Query Options: -a | Query all installed packages. | -f | Query package owning FILE. | -c | List only configuration files (implies -I). | -i | Display package information, including name, version, and description. This uses the –query format if one was specified. | -R | List packages on which this package depends. |
Erase Options: -nodeps | Don't check dependencies before uninstalling the packages. |
Command | tar | Purpose | The GNU version of the tar archiving utility | Synopsis | - - |
Options: -c | Create a new archive | -f | Use archive file or device F (default /dev/rmt0) | -r | Append files to the end of an archive | -t | List the contents of an archive | - u | Only append files that are newer than copy in archive | -x | Extract files from an archive | -v | Verbosely list files processed | -z | Filter the archive through gzip |
Command | cpio | Purpose | Copy files to and from archives | Synopsis | cpio [filename] ... |
Description: This manual page documents the GNU version of cpio, cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive, which is a file that contains other files plus information about them, such as their file name, owner, timestamps, and access permissions. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe, cpio has three operating modes. |
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