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16.8 Tools for RPM Archives and the
RPM Database
Midnight Commander (mc) can display the contents of RPM archives and copy parts
of them. It represents archives as virtual file systems, offering all usual menu options
of Midnight Commander. Display the HEADER with
. View the archive structure
F3
with the cursor keys and
. Copy archive components with
.
Enter
F5
KDE offers the kpackage tool as a front-end for rpm. A full-featured package manager
is available as a YaST module (see
Section 7.3.1, "Installing and Removing Software"
(page 139)).
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