How to list the contents of a package using YUM?

Question

I know how to use rpm to list the contents of a package (rpm -qpil package.rpm). However, this requires knowing the location of the .rpm file on the filesystem. A more elegant solution would be to use the package manager, which in my case is YUM. How can YUM be used to achieve this?

Answer 1

There is a package called yum-utils that builds on YUM and contains a tool called repoquery that can do this.

$ repoquery --help | grep -E "list\ files"    -l, --list            list files in this package/group 

Combined into one example:

$ repoquery -l time /usr/bin/time /usr/share/doc/time-1.7 /usr/share/doc/time-1.7/COPYING /usr/share/doc/time-1.7/NEWS /usr/share/doc/time-1.7/README /usr/share/info/time.info.gz 

On at least one RH system, with rpm v4.8.0, yum v3.2.29, and repoquery v0.0.11, repoquery -l rpm prints nothing.

If you are having this issue, try adding the --installed flag: repoquery --installed -l rpm.

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DNF Update:

To use dnf instead of yum-utils, use the following command:

$ dnf repoquery -l time /usr/bin/time /usr/share/doc/time-1.7 /usr/share/doc/time-1.7/COPYING /usr/share/doc/time-1.7/NEWS /usr/share/doc/time-1.7/README /usr/share/info/time.info.gz 

Answer 2

rpm -ql [packageName] 

Example

# rpm -ql php-fpm  /etc/php-fpm.conf /etc/php-fpm.d /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf /etc/sysconfig/php-fpm ... /run/php-fpm /usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm.service /usr/sbin/php-fpm /usr/share/doc/php-fpm-5.6.0 /usr/share/man/man8/php-fpm.8.gz ... /var/lib/php/sessions /var/log/php-fpm 

No need to install yum-utils, or to know the location of the rpm file.