Interrogatinging uninstalled rpms

Sanjeewa Wijerathne sun at sanjeewa.org
Fri May 28 05:12:25 UTC 2004


david walcroft wrote:

> Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
>
>> How do I find out info about an rpm that's not installed? rpm seems 
>> to want to only work on installed packages.
>>
>>     -ste
>>
>>
> You can use 'less' for basic info such as headers and files,
>
> "less kernel-2.6.6-1.391.i686.rpm"
>
>     david
>
>
rpm -qpi kernel-2.6.6-1.391.i686.rpm





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