4.2.8 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 F3 . View the archive structure
with the cursor keys and Enter . Copy archive components with F5 .
KDE offers the kpackage tool as a front-end for rpm. A full-featured package manager
is available as a YaST module (see Chapter 9, Installing or Removing Software (↑De-
ployment Guide)).
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