How to list the package contents of a yum install?

December 25, 2011 Linux

Sometimes you need to see what’s installed as part of a package via yum. To see the package contents you can use a utility that’s available on the RHEL/CentOS.

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$repoquery –list packagename

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If you do not have this utility available, you can install it by using this command

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$yum install yum-utils

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Here is a sample output from looking at the package contents of Apache httpd.

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$repoquery –list httpd

/etc/httpd /etc/httpd/conf /etc/httpd/conf.d /etc/httpd/conf.d/README /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/magic /etc/httpd/logs /etc/httpd/modules /etc/httpd/run /etc/logrotate.d/httpd /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd /etc/sysconfig/httpd /usr/lib64/httpd /usr/lib64/httpd/modules /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_actions.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_alias.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_asis.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_auth_basic.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_auth_digest.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authn_alias.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authn_anon.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authn_dbd.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authn_dbm.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authn_default.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authn_file.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authnz_ldap.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authz_dbm.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authz_default.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authz_host.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authz_owner.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authz_user.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_autoindex.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_cache.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_cern_meta.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_cgi.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_cgid.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_dav.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_dav_fs.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_dbd.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_deflate.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_dir.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_disk_cache.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_dumpio.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_env.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_expires.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_ext_filter.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_filter.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_headers.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_ident.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_include.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_info.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_ldap.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_log_config.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_log_forensic.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_logio.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_mime.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_mime_magic.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_negotiation.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_proxy.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_connect.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_http.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_scgi.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_reqtimeout.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_rewrite.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_setenvif.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_speling.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_status.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_substitute.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_suexec.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_unique_id.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_userdir.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_usertrack.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_version.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_vhost_alias.so /usr/sbin/apachectl /usr/sbin/htcacheclean /usr/sbin/httpd /usr/sbin/httpd.event /usr/sbin/httpd.worker /usr/sbin/httxt2dbm /usr/sbin/rotatelogs /usr/sbin/suexec /usr/share/doc/httpd-2.2.15 /usr/share/doc/httpd-2.2.15/ABOUT_APACHE /usr/share/doc/httpd-2.2.15/CHANGES /usr/share/doc/httpd-2.2.15/LICENSE /usr/share/doc/httpd-2.2.15/NOTICE /usr/share/doc/httpd-2.2.15/README /usr/share/doc/httpd-2.2.15/VERSIONING /usr/share/man/man8/apachectl.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/htcacheclean.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/httpd.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/rotatelogs.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/suexec.8.gz /var/cache/mod_proxy /var/lib/dav /var/log/httpd /var/run/httpd /var/www /var/www/cgi-bin /var/www/error /var/www/error/HTTP_BAD_GATEWAY.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_BAD_REQUEST.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_FORBIDDEN.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_GONE.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_LENGTH_REQUIRED.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_PRECONDITION_FAILED.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_REQUEST_ENTITY_TOO_LARGE.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_REQUEST_TIME_OUT.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_REQUEST_URI_TOO_LARGE.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE.html.var /var/www/error/HTTP_VARIANT_ALSO_VARIES.html.var /var/www/error/README /var/www/error/contact.html.var /var/www/error/include /var/www/error/include/bottom.html /var/www/error/include/spacer.html /var/www/error/include/top.html /var/www/error/noindex.html /var/www/html /var/www/icons /var/www/icons/README /var/www/icons/README.html /var/www/icons/a.gif /var/www/icons/a.png /var/www/icons/alert.black.gif /var/www/icons/alert.black.png /var/www/icons/alert.red.gif /var/www/icons/alert.red.png /var/www/icons/apache_pb.gif /var/www/icons/apache_pb.png /var/www/icons/apache_pb2.gif 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