Tag Archives: rpm
Verify installed rpm packages
Installing packages via rpm usually provides a lot of comfort. Simply installing an rpm deploys all files related to that package wherever they need to go across the system. Some packages distribute hundreds of files into different sections of the … Continue reading
Find and extract one file from rpm package
Extracting a configuration file (or any other single file) from a package which is not installed is not a standard operation on rpm based systems, but with the following few steps, a file can be extracted without installing the package … Continue reading
Show installed yum packages by size
When you pay for every GB of disc space on your server as it is with an Amazon EC2 instance, you want to make sure that the installed packages are at a minimum. Besides the actual user data, you can as well try to remove packages you don’t need but have been installed for some reasons. Here is how to find the biggest installed packages. Continue reading
