[svlug] Using RPM

[Randy J. Ray]

  >> When I query rpm:
  >> 
  >> %> rpm -qa | grep gcc ...or...  %> rpm -q gcc
  >> 
  >> ...rpm reports that "package gcc is not installed".

On some of the RH distributions, the compiler was in the egcs package,
rather than in a "gcc". Instead, try this:

% which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
% rpm -qf /usr/bin/gcc
gcc-2.96-69

(My system is a fairly current RHL 7 box).

Also, you don't "install" a source RPM in the sense that you do a binary
(or noarch) RPM. Source RPMs are only used to create the installable
packages, so there wouldn't be anything in the rpm database for them.

Randy
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