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Snowcrash

Reputation: 86177

What does `rpm -qa` do?

This page http://rikers.org/rpmbook/node29.html says "RPM's query function can help you get out of sticky situations" and man rpm says:

QUERYING AND VERIFYING PACKAGES:
   rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options]

   -a, --all
          Query all installed packages.

If I run rpm -qa logstash I get:

logstash-5.5.1-1.noarch

so does this mean:

  1. I have logstash-5.5.1-1 installed?

  2. logstash-5.5.1-1 is available to install from the remote source?

  3. a local logstash rpm is available which is logstash-5.5.1-1?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 12657

Answers (1)

Mureinik
Mureinik

Reputation: 311508

Used like this, rpm will return information about installed packages. This means you have logstash-5.5.1-1.noarch installed.

You could gather more information on both the installed and available packages by using dnf info logstash (or, on older EL distros, yum info logstash).

Upvotes: 2

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