Viewing all the gory details of an RPM
Linux has a varied methodology of managing packages. RPMs are one of the most common. Some distros have source-based package management systems, such as Portage for Gentoo. Derivatives of Debian such as Ubuntu have packages in DEB format.
For the RPM-based distributions, the package manager tries to take care of resolving dependencies for you. Some of them do a great job at this. At some point, however, you’ll likely have to work directly with an RPM package on the command-line.
One thing I really like about YAST (and others) is that you can browse and search through the description, and view other package details. You can see the author, version, vendor, build date, build host, size, etc. You can also see a list of what files will be installed, and where they will be placed.
So how do we view all that info from the command line?
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