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yum find out path where is package installed to on CentOS/RHEL
I have install htop package on a CentOS/RHEL . I wanted find out where and at what path htop package installed all files. Is there an easy way to tell yum where is package installed on a CentOS/RHEL?
yum command is an interactive, open source, rpm based, package manager for a CentOS/RHEL and clones. It can automatically perform the following operations for you:
- Core system file updates
- Package updates
- Install a new packages
- Delete of old packages
- Perform queries on the installed and/or available packages
yum is similar to other high level package managers like apt-get command/apt command.
yum where is package installed
The syntax is as follows to install htop package for a demo purpose:
# yum install htop
To list the files installed by a yum package called htop, run the following rpm command:
# rpm -q {packageNameHere}
# rpm -ql htop
Sample outputs:
/usr/bin/htop
/usr/share/doc/htop-2.0.2
/usr/share/doc/htop-2.0.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/htop-2.0.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/htop-2.0.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/htop-2.0.2/README
/usr/share/man/man1/htop.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/htop.png
How to see the files installed by a yum package using repoquery command
First install yum-utils package using yum command:
# yum install yum-utils
Sample outputs:
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package yum-utils.noarch 0:1.1.31-42.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: python-kitchen for package: yum-utils-1.1.31-42.el7.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: libxml2-python for package: yum-utils-1.1.31-42.el7.noarch
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libxml2-python.x86_64 0:2.9.1-6.el7_2.3 will be installed
---> Package python-kitchen.noarch 0:1.1.1-5.el7 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
=======================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=======================================================================================
Installing:
yum-utils noarch 1.1.31-42.el7 rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms 117 k
Installing for dependencies:
libxml2-python x86_64 2.9.1-6.el7_2.3 rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms 247 k
python-kitchen noarch 1.1.1-5.el7 rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms 266 k
Transaction Summary
=======================================================================================
Install 1 Package (+2 Dependent packages)
Total download size: 630 k
Installed size: 3.1 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
(1/3): python-kitchen-1.1.1-5.el7.noarch.rpm | 266 kB 00:00:00
(2/3): libxml2-python-2.9.1-6.el7_2.3.x86_64.rpm | 247 kB 00:00:00
(3/3): yum-utils-1.1.31-42.el7.noarch.rpm | 117 kB 00:00:00
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 1.0 MB/s | 630 kB 00:00
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Installing : python-kitchen-1.1.1-5.el7.noarch 1/3
Installing : libxml2-python-2.9.1-6.el7_2.3.x86_64 2/3
Installing : yum-utils-1.1.31-42.el7.noarch 3/3
Verifying : libxml2-python-2.9.1-6.el7_2.3.x86_64 1/3
Verifying : yum-utils-1.1.31-42.el7.noarch 2/3
Verifying : python-kitchen-1.1.1-5.el7.noarch 3/3
Installed:
yum-utils.noarch 0:1.1.31-42.el7
Dependency Installed:
libxml2-python.x86_64 0:2.9.1-6.el7_2.3 python-kitchen.noarch 0:1.1.1-5.el7
Complete!
How do I list the contents of a installed package using YUM?
Now run repoquery command as follows:
# repoquery --list htop
OR
# repoquery -l htop
Sample outputs:
You can also use the type command or command command to just find location of given binary file such as httpd or htop:
$ type -a httpd
$ type -a htop
$ command -V htop
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