Package managers

With OpenVZ, you can run many different Linux distributions on a single box. One particular thing in which distributions differ is package management. This article summarizes how to perform various common package management tasks on a different distributions.

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Action	RPM RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, Mandrake, ...	DEB Debian, Ubuntu	Ebuild Gentoo, Sabayon
Basic queries
List of all installed packages	rpm -qa	dpkg -l	equery list
List of installing packages matching substr	rpm -qa \*substr\*	dpkg -l \*substr\*	equery list substr
Basic information about an installed package	rpm -qi package	dpkg -p package	-???-
List of files in a given package	rpm -ql package	dpkg -L package	equery files package
Which package a file belongs to?	rpm -qf file	-???-	equery belongs file