Using this tool you can install debug packages, source packages and you can view extended information from repositories. Yum-utils is an assortment of tools and programs for managing yum repositories in your Linux box. Ok, so second part of you answer, javabrett, was the one that helped, thanks. One cool thing about this Linux package manager is that it lists the repository from which a package was installed: yum list installed Using YUM-Utils another option is using /root/anaconda-ks.cfg it has the 'Groups' and any single packages installed at initial you can run rpm list installed grep -v (all those groups /packages) which gives you a naked initial install. Using the command below will list all installed packages on your Linux box. YUM stands for Yellowdog Updater Modified is an interactive, front-end rpm based package manager. The following command will print a list of all installed packages on your Linux box, the flag -q means query and the flag -a means to list all installed packages: rpm -qa Using YUM Package Manager You can list installed Packages in Red Hat very easy with rpm. The RPM package manager is an open source, low level package manager which runs on Red Hat based Linux distros. A package management reference card for Linux distributions and FreeBSD Search by file name, -, - List installed packages, ls /var/log/packages/, ls /var/. I usually work on Debian based Linux distros, but the other day while sorting some NYC street photos I took a friend contacted me asking me how to list installed packages in Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora.

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