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Making a statement

Just got one of these from The Open Group:

Anyone who wants one can buy it here.
Go check out Unix System History page while you’re at it.

List full name of rpm packages installed

Sometimes when checking on installed Red Hat packages it’s helpful to see the full package name, especially when you’re trying to distinguish between x86 and x86_64 versions. Here’s a handy one-liner for that:
rpm -q [PACKAGE_NAME] –qf “%{name}-%{version}-%{release}\
.%{arch}\n”
What this will get you is something like this:
rpm -q glibc –qf “%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n”
glibc-2.5-24.x86_64
glibc-2.5-24.i686

If you need to check a [...]