This section contains an overview of principal modes using with RPM for installing, uninstalling, upgrading, querying, listing, and checking RPM packages on your Linux system. To install/upgrade an RPM package, use the command:

                 [root@deep] /#rpm -Uvh foo-1.0-2.i386.rpm
                 

With this command, RPM automatically uninstalls the old version of foo package and install the new one. Always Take a note that RPM packages have a file of names like foo-1.0-2.i386.rpm, which include the package name (foo), version (1.0), release (2), and architecture (i386).

To uninstall a RPM package, use the command:

                 [root@deep] /#rpm -e foo
                 

Notice that we used the package name foo, not the name of the original package file foo-1.0-2.i386.rpm.

To get a list of all installed RPMs, use the command:

                 [root@deep] /#rpm -aq
                 

This command will print the package name, version, and release number of installed package foo. Use this command to verify that a package is or is not installed on your system.

To display package information, use the command:

                 [root@deep] /#rpm -qi foo
                 

This command display package information; includes name, version, and description of the installed program. Use this command to get information about the installed package.

To list files in package, use the command:

                 [root@deep] /#rpm -qpl foo-1.0-2.i386.rpm
                 

This command will list all files in an RPM package.