How to list the contents of a package using YUM

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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

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currently reopquery is integrated into dnf and yum  so typing   dnf repoquery -l  lt pkg-name gt    will list package contents from a remote repository  even for the packages that are not installed yet   meaning installing a separate dnf-utils or yum-utils package is no longer required for the functionality as it is now being supported natively     for listing installed or local    rpm files  packages  contents there is rpm -ql  i don t think it is possible with yum org dnf  not repoquery subcommand   please correct me if i am wrong

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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

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There are several good answers here  so let me provide a terrible one     you can type in anything below  doesnt have to match anything  yum whatprovides  me with a life     result of the above  some liberties taken with spacing    Loaded plugins  fastestmirror base   3 6 kB 00 00  extras   3 4 kB 00 00  updates   3 4 kB 00 00   1 4   extras 7 x86 64 primary db   166 kB 00 00   2 4   base 7 x86 64 group gz   155 kB 00 00   3 4   updates 7 x86 64 primary db   9 1 MB 00 04   4 4   base 7 x86 64 primary db   5 3 MB 00 05  Determining fastest mirrors    base  mirrors xmission com    extras  mirrors xmission com    updates  mirrors xmission com base 7 x86 64 filelists db   6 2 MB 00 02  extras 7 x86 64 filelists db   468 kB 00 00  updates 7 x86 64 filelists db   5 3 MB 00 01  No matches found    the key result above is that  primary db  files were downloaded    filelists are downloaded EVEN IF you have keepcache 0 in your yum conf    note you can limit this to  primary db sqlite  if you really want  find  var cache yum -name    sqlite     if you download install a new repo  run the exact same command again   to get the databases for the new repo    if you know sqlite you can stop reading here    if not heres a sample command to dump the contents  echo  SELECT packages name  GROUP CONCAT files name        AS files FROM files JOIN packages ON  files pkgKey   packages pkgKey  GROUP BY packages name LIMIT 10     sqlite3 -line  var cache yum x86 64 7 base gen primary db sqlite     remove  LIMIT 10  above for the whole list    format chosen for proof-of-concept purposes  probably can be improved a lot

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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     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

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yum install -y yum-utils    repoquery -l packagename

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I don t think you can list the contents of a package using yum  but if you have the  rpm file on your local system  as will most likely be the case for all installed packages   you can use the rpm command to list the contents of that package like so   rpm -qlp  path to fileToList rpm   If you don t have the package file   rpm   but you have the package installed  try this   rpm -ql packageName

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Yum doesn t have it s own package type  Yum operates and helps manage RPMs  So  you can use yum to list the available RPMs and then run the rpm -qlp command to see the contents of that package

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