UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming MySQL and Server Configuration Working out which version is installed and where

I have a general qestion on Linux that specifically relates to the installation of GNOME on Linux Redhat 6.0.
I am upgrading my install of GNOME and would love to know how I can work out what version of each package is before installing the update, as well as where it is installed. I know that this may differ from package to package however is there any "standard" way of working this out?

I have looked at WHEREIS and this kind of helps but is insufficent. (I also admit I don't fully understand the output)

Any suggestions or advise would be greatly appreciated.

Shane

If you're working on RedHat (I don't know if it works on other flavors of linux), try typing

[:yellow]rpm -qa

That should get you a list of all installed packages and their versions... I'm not sure how you'll track down where they're all installed. I'm still learning all this stuff too! []/forumimages/smile.gif[/]

Enjoy!

Matty J

As MattyJ said, [:yellow]rpm -qa will give you the list of all packages installed. [:yellow]rpm -qi packagename will give you information on the packagename. [:yellow]rpm -ql packagename will give you the location of all files installed by packagename.

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