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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