{"id":184,"date":"2010-12-17T18:13:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T02:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2010-12-17T18:13:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T02:13:44","slug":"basic-handy-rpm-commands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/basic-handy-rpm-commands\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic, handy rpm commands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though I’m comfortable on the command line (and regularly use Cygwin on Windows, and Terminal on the Mac), I haven’t used Red Hat Linux (or CentOS) since probably 2003, and so I’m not very familiar with rpm (“RPM Package Manager<\/a>“, or formerly, “Red Hat Package Manager”). I started by looking at the man page, which is a great way to look up a particular command-line argument but is not necessarily the best way to learn just what I need right now. For that, Google often works better, and indeed this Quick Guide<\/a> fit the bill perfectly.<\/p>\n

After installing MarkLogic Server on my new EC2 instance<\/a>, I wanted to poke around some. Here are the simple commands that came in handy:<\/p>\n

\n
rpm -i MarkLogic-4.2-1.i686.rpm<\/tt><\/dt>\n
Installs MarkLogic from the RPM package<\/dd>\n
rpm -qa<\/tt><\/dt>\n
Lists all the packages installed on this machine (“query all”)<\/dd>\n
\trpm -qa | grep MarkLogic<\/tt><\/dt>\n
Searches for “MarkLogic” among that list (revealing its title as “MarkLogic-4.2-1”)<\/dd>\n
\trpm -qi MarkLogic-4.2-1<\/tt><\/dt>\n
Shows info about this package (“query info”)<\/dd>\n
\trpm -ql MarkLogic-4.2-1<\/tt><\/p>\n
Shows all the files created as a result of installing this package (“query list”)<\/dd>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

Yep, very basic and nothing to write home about. But blogging about it might help me remember. Most Unix commands have a ton of options, many of which I’ll never need. But it’s good to be able to remember some of the most common ones and only visit the man page when I need to do something unusual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though I’m comfortable on the command line (and regularly use Cygwin on Windows, and Terminal on the Mac), I haven’t used Red Hat Linux (or CentOS) since probably 2003, and so I’m not very familiar with rpm (“RPM Package Manager“, or formerly, “Red Hat Package Manager”). I started by looking at the man page, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}