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.
| 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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| Advanced queries | |||
| 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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| Check the hash (i.e. MD5 etc.) sums of an installed package | rpm -V package
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debsums -ca package
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equery check package
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| Show pre/post install/uninstall scripts from a package | rpm -q --scripts package
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| Show change log for a package | rpm -q --changelog package
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| Local package installation/upgrade/removal | |||
| Install a package from local package_file | rpm -ihv package_file*.rpm
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dpkg -i package_file*.deb [2]
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| Upgrade a package from local package_file | rpm -Uhv package_file*.rpm
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dpkg -i package_file*.deb [2]
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| Remove an installed package | rpm -e package
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dpkg -r package
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emerge --unmerge package
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| Get information about package interdependencies | |||
| What a given package provides? | rpm -q --provides package
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dpkg-query -W -f='${Provides}\n' package
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| What a given package requires? | rpm -q --provides package
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dpkg-query -W -f='${Depends}\n' package
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| What package(s) provide a given dependency[3]? | rpm -q --whatprovides dependency
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| What package(s) require a given dependency[3]? | rpm -q --whatrequires dependency
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- ↑ In case there are unsatisfied dependencies for package_file, yum will try to get and install it from known repositores.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Usually it is not necessary to download packages manually and install them. Use apt-cache search name to search for package in configured repositories and apt-get install package to install package and all it's dependencies
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 In rpm world, a dependency can be a package name, a file, or a special atom like
perl(IO::Zlib)for a perl module. In deb world, this can be either real or virtual package name.