RPM and DPKG command reference
Welcome to RPM and DPKG command reference. RPM is a package manager
used in Red Hat Enterprise, Fedora, SuSE and many other Linux
distributions. DPKG is a package manager used in Debian, Ubuntu and
other Debian based distributions.
Below we will refer to {file.deb} or {file.rpm} which is a
package file on the filesystem. When we refer to {package} we are
talking about installed package
Installing / updating
| RPM |
DPKG |
Description |
| rpm -i {file.rpm} | dpkg -i {file.deb} | Install package from a file |
| rpm -U {file.rpm} | dpkg -i {file.deb} | Update package from a file |
Remove
| RPM |
DPKG |
Description |
| rpm -e {package} | dpkg -r {package} | Remove a installed package |
Querying
| RPM |
DPKG |
Description |
| rpm -qa | dpkg -l | List all installed packages |
| rpm -ql {package} | dpkg -L {package} | List files in a installed package |
| rpm -qi | dpkg -p {package} | Show information about a installed package |
| rpm -qpi {file.rpm} | dpkg -I {file.deb} | Show information about package file |
| rpm -qpl {file.rpm} | dpkg -c {file.deb} | List files in a package file |
Verifying
| RPM |
DPKG |
Description |
| rpm -Va | na | Verify all installed packages |
| rpm -V {package} | na | Verify installed package |
