Viewing installed packages from the command line

[Robin Mordasiewicz]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, chrisl at xp.etowns.net wrote:

> Just a quick question. I want to uninstall a package, Open Office for 
> example, from the system via a remote SSH session. Now the Open Office 
> install is made up of several packages and I don't have all of the names 
> memorized, so how would I determine what packages make up the Open Office 
> installation from the command line?

this may help

rpm -qa | grep -i office