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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 [...]

Apache Directory Studio

Apache Directory Studio has been out there for awhile, but now that it’s up to version 1.3 RC2, I’ve decided to go full immersion with it and see just what can be done.
Based on the Eclipse IDE, the product is basically a complete LDAP development toolkit that includes a client browser/editor (could this replace Jarek [...]