Displaying information on non-installed RPM package?

Question

I googled for this, but couldn\'t find how to query a non-installed RPM file for its information:

# rpm -qa blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm
# 
# rpm -qi bl         


        

Answer 1

Related - Display Infos For Installed Package :

rpm -qi InstalledPackageName

Answer 2

@crazyscot did answer the question. Thanks.

Additionally, I found that specific querytags can also be leveraged this way, which wasn't obvious from reading the man page. So, for example, I found I can do the following:

    rpm -qp --queryformat '%{ARCH}\n' foo.rpm

or, even:

    xyz="ARCH";  rpm -qp --qf %{${xyz}}  foo.rpm; echo ""

This works nicely for RPM's that are not installed, and leveraging the available querytags in the installed rpm

Here is more information about tags

Answer 3

When rpm is not-installed then (this will list the complete info, plus the list of contents in the package);

rpm -qipl <rpm_name.rpm> 

When rpm is installed then;

rpm -qi <rpm_name.rpm>

For more on rpm-queries. For more on handy-queries.

Answer 4

there are lot of -i option used in above answers , best way to check :

For one rpms,

rpm -qlp <rpm-name>.rpm

For all rpms , search for your file with grep :

rpm -qpl *.rpm|grep <string or file name>

Answer 5

less <rpm_name.rpm>

Displays all that I need, same as 'rpm -qlpv'.
Very good resource: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2015/10/13/inspect-extract-contents-rpm-packages/ .

Answer 6

rpm -qip foo.rpm