Software Package Troubleshooting Reference

Table 8-2 provides a reference for finding and troubleshooting RPM packages.

Table 8-2: RPM Package Troubleshooting References

*General RPM information*
RPM project	www.rpm.org
RPM documentation	Maximum RPM (.ps format): www.rpm.org/local/maximum-rpm.ps.gz
RPM HOWTO	www.rpm.org/support/RPM-HOWTO.html
RPM mailing lists	RPM.org mailing list: www.rpm.org/mailing_list/ Usenet newsgroup: linux.redhat.rpm
RPM documentation in Fedora	/usr/share/doc/rpm^-* Man pages: rpm, rpm2cpio, rpmbuild, rpmcache, rpmgraph, gendiff, and rpmdeps
RPM configuration and log files /etc/rpm directory	Files that set the locations for RPM components. Generally there's no need to touch these files.
/var/lib/rpm	Location of the database of RPM packages that are currently installed.
/usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux	Location of the database of total RPM packages that are available on the full Fedora or Red Hat Linux distribution (when installed).
/var/log/rpmpkgs	List of all RPM packages on the current system.

*RPM commands*
rpm	Basic command for adding, removing, upgrading, and querying RPM packages.
redhat-config-packages	Launches the GUI tool to add and remove software packages.
rpm2cpio	Converts an RPM package into a cpio archive file.