Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (720 mails)

[bb@xxxxxxxx (Bodo Bauer)]

Martin Moeller wrote:
> 
> Hiya!
> 
>  In S.u.S.E. Linux 5.1, it seem that you will not get the nice info
> included in .rpm files before you already have installed them. All you
> get is their version-number. I honestly think this should be expanded to
> be so close to the actual installation of the system (Description next
> to it, more below, even more with F2 + file listing). Or at least the F2
> option?
> If you 'less' the file you can see the info, equally so using Midnight
> Commander, so it should be possible, maybe even trivial, to include.
> 
> Of course it may already be in S.u.S.E. Linux 5.2. If so, then great!

It's in 5.1 too.. :)

Try 'rpm -qpi <file>' to get the summary information  or 'rpm -qps <file>'
to get the file list.

Ciao,
        BB


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