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| **Mass uninstall of packages that match a pattern:** | **Mass uninstall of packages that match a pattern:** | ||
| rpm -qa | grep pattern | xargs rpm -e | rpm -qa | grep pattern | xargs rpm -e | ||
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| + | **How to extract contents of an RPM package** | ||
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| + | As the name implies, rpm2cpio takes an RPM package file and converts it to a cpio archive. The -i flag to the cpio command indicates that cpio is reading in the archive to extract files, and the -d flag tells cpio to construct directories as necessary. The -v flag tells cpio to list file names as files are extracted, and the -m flag tells cpio to retain previous file modification times when creating files. | ||
| ===== Building a dummy/empty RPM ===== | ===== Building a dummy/empty RPM ===== | ||
