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
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dpkg -l
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equery list
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| List of installing packages matching substr | rpm -qa \*substr\*
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dpkg -l \*substr\*
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equery list substr
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| Basic information about an installed package | rpm -qi package
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dpkg -p package
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| List of files in a given package | rpm -ql package
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dpkg -L package
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equery files package
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| Which package a file belongs to? | rpm -qf file
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dpkg -S file
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equery belongs file
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| Package installation/upgrade/removal | |||
| Install a package from local package_file | rpm -ihv package_file*.rpm
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| Upgrade a package from local package_file | rpm -Uhv package_file*.rpm
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| Remove an installed package | rpm -e package
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emerge --unmerge package
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