List RPMs by name, version and description
Anyone know how to list rpms and list descriptions to all rpms? I know yum info provides a description, but how would i apply this to all rpms installed?
Tried:
yum info [package name]
yum list installed
Responses
Guru
Community Member
3711 points
Problem with listing out descriptions is that they're multi-line. So, while you could do something like:
rpm -qa --qf '#####\n# %{name}-%{version}-%{release}\n#####\n%{description}\n##########\n##########\n\n'
The output's not going to be exactly gorgeous.
Guru
10128 points
Derek, that example Thomas Jones gave is wonderful, you could push that to a text file perhaps and tidy it up afterwards. Also examine http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-query-handy-queries.html and navigate around in that website.
Regards,
RJ
Right, Thomas and RJ gave wonderful options.
You could try out this as well:
To list out all installed packages name and descriptions:
#yum info installed|awk '/Description/,/Name/'
The only glitch with this is that for the first package it would skip out name. So, to get it I could do it like this:
#ALLRPMS=$(yum info installed);echo "${ALLRPMS}"|grep "Name" -m1 > /tmp/rpmpackages.data;echo "${ALLRPMS}"|awk '/Description/,/Name/' >> /tmp/rpmpackages.data
Later, cat the file /tmp/rpmpackages.data it should up a nice list of all installed package name and description. There could be other ways as well to get this done.
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