package

Returns the named package from the given RPM database.

Returns a package in the RPM database that conflicts with this capability. If any packages are returned, then the rpm command will not allow any package providing this capability to be installed.

Finds the package that installed the specified capability.

Returns all the packages in the given RPM database.

Returns a package in the RPM database that provides this capability. If no packages are returned, then the rpm command will not allow any packages requiring this capability to be installed.

Returns a package in the RPM database that requires this capability. If any packages are returned, then the rpm command will not allow any installed package that provides this capability to be uninstalled.

The architecture represents the CPU type that the RPM Package was designed to be used on. Typical values are i386, i686, or x86_64, but packages can be created with archtectures like 'noarch' or have no architecture specified at all.Example: architecture of package "BESAgent" of rpm - On a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0, 64 bit, this will return x86_64, while on a Fedora Core 3, 32 bit, it will return i386.

Returns capability objects that conflict with this package in the RPM database.

The list of actual files that the package leaves installed.

Returns the name of the given RPM package.

Returns a capability object that this package obsoletes.

Returns capability objects for each capability that this package provides.

Returns capability objects for each capability that this package requires.

Returns the RPM version records of the specified package.

Examples

Q: rpm version record of (package "bzip2" of rpm)
A: 1.0.5-7.el6_0

Q: rpm version record of (package "gedit" of rpm)
A: 1:2.28.4-4.el6

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Returns the unique values of a given list of <package> types, removing duplicates and sorting by value.

Returns the version of the given RPM package.

Creates a string containing the package's name, version and release.Example: package "apache" of rpm as string - Returns a string with information about the package, such as "apache-1.3.23-88".