What's installed?

[fryem720]

Hi. Searched the forums, read the help files. I'm sure the answer is obvious, but I'm too dense to find it.

How do I print out a list of all the software packages on my FC1 system? Ideally, I could generate a printout that lists not only the package names, but also a description of what they do. THAT would be SWEET! Thanks in advance.

[happybunny]

look at man rpm

rpm -qa|sort|less will list all installed rpm's alphabetically, but no discription.

Maybe there is a switch that will do both.

[hard candy]

I believe that if you use apt-get and synaptic on fedora core, you can filter synaptic to display installed packages only and maybe change the view to have the tree expanded. You may have to copy and paste the results to a file though, to print it.

[mdwatts]

http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/package-list/

rpm -qa > rpmlist

less rpmlist

grep <package> rpmlist