Chapter 13. Package Management From The Command Line

1. Installing and Removing Packages
2. Media Management
2.1. Adding New Media
2.2. Removing Media
2.3. Updating Media
2.4. Media Order
3. Tricks and Recipes
3.1. Synthesized vs. Complete Lists
3.2. Finding the Package which Contains a Specific File
3.3. Updating Packages

Abstract

Rpmdrake applications are merely graphical interfaces to the powerful urpmi command line tools. For those wishing to manage their packages via the command line (useful if you are working remotely, for example) we present the most useful commands.