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The RPM package manager

Table of contents

1. TL;DR
2. Further readings

TL;DR

# List all installed packages.
rpm --query --all
rpm -qa

# List files installed by packages.
rpm --query --list 'package_name'
rpm -ql 'parallel'

# Find which package owns a file.
rpm --query --file '/path/to/file'
rpm -qf '/usr/bin/realm'

# List the contents of locally available RPM packages.
rpm --query --list --package 'path/to/file.rpm'
rpm -qlp 'downloads/foo.rpm'

Further readings

• How can I list all files which have been installed by an ZYpp/Zypper package?