SuSE 10.2 list of installed packages

[awesomeal]

On my SuSE 10.2 system, where would I find a list of installed packages? If there isn't a list available, how would I get the system to generate one?

[Dooghy]

You can go to Yast -> Software -> Software Management. In the opened window the easiest way (at least for me) to see the packages installed is to select in the "Filter" drop-down the criteria "Patterns". You'll get, grouped by categories, the packages you've installed (all installed packages are ticked; all packages unticked are not installed). Still, you'll have to click on each group to see what packages you've installed from that group.

Alternatively, you can get a list of all your installed packages by opening a terminal and type "rpm -qa"

Hope that helps!

[Tsarevich]

You can use YaST to do so.

1. Select YaST from KMenu > System
2. Select Install and Remove Software on SuSE 9.2 and Software Management on SuSE 10.X Versions.
3. Search for the package you want. Use the checkbox to Keep, Update, or Uninstall the selected.
4. Click on the accept button to update the database

Or you can use Terminal to query the database

1. Open Konsole
2. Enter rpm -q software

[abednegoyulo]

Hey Guys! The information that you have given is very usefull to noobs like me. Just a follow-up question on this, how do I know if a software is installed on to my system using the console? Its like this, I am trying to install a software and I do not know if the prerequisite software is already installed, eg. bundled during the installation. BTW, the prerequite is libtiff.

[apoorv_khurasia]

rpm -qa | grep -i <a small substring of the name of software>

Example to check for a pdf viewer

rpm -qa | grep -i pdf

Note that it will only tell those softwares that have the name pdf in them. If you know the exact name of the software even better

rpm -q <exact name>

Good luck!

Edit: For the specific question try

rpm -q --whatrequires <package name>

Example for libtiff

rpm -q --whatrequires libtiff

Cheers!

[abednegoyulo]

Thanks a lot! As a noobie for linux it seems very sophisticated to use it. Thanks to you guys I am beggining to like it. Can I use this on apps that were installed from source? I also installed spandsp on my machine (#./configure && make && make install). I tried detecting it using rpm but it didn't work (rpm -qa | grep -i spandsp). Is there another way of finding out apps that were installed this way? Thanks in advance!

[apoorv_khurasia]

The command rpm shall work only with the packages that were installed using the rpm command. When you make a query to it it looks up its database (which is btw updated after every install/upgrade/uninstall) and gives u the output. This wont work with source as it does not upgrade the rpm database. You can go ahead to modify the source and include provisions so that it does this but beware rpm can get confused!!!

[abednegoyulo]

Hmmm. Is there any way to get a list of apps that are installed using "make install"? Or is there any way to know if a specific app, which can only be installed using "make install", is installed?

[gogalthorp]

Use find or in KDE menu Find files/folders