5 Tips for Managing RPMs | Linux Today

5 Tips for Managing RPMs

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 22, 2011

[ Thanks to Amy Newman for this link.
]

“Ever been confused about what configuration file or files exist
for a package? It’s not unusual to install a package (or have a
package installed as a default) and not know exactly what
configuration files are used to manage it. To determine the
configuration files installed with a package, use rpm -qc
packagename. Then, to find out what configuration files exist for
the gnome-vfs2 package, you’d use rpm -qc gnome-vfs2, which will
return:

“/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf
/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/ssl-modules.conf

“/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/ssl-modules.con

“This tells you the files that go with the package, but what
about a specific command?”


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