| Do you want to know where the various files in the installation package are installed (located) on the Linux system? In this article we'll show you how to list the origin of a file, or the files that exist in a particular package or group of packages. |
This article can help you easily find important package files, such as configuration files, help documents, etc. Let's look at a few ways to find out which package a file is in or installed from:
How to List Files of All Installed Packages in Linux
You can use the repoquery command , which is part of yum-utils, to list the files installed by a given package on CentOS /RHEL systems.
To install and use yum-utils, run the following commands :
# yum update # yum install yum-utils
Now you can list the files of an installed package, such as the httpd server (note that package names are case sensitive). --installed means installed packages, -l lists all files:
# repoquery --installed -l httpd # dnf repoquery --installed -l httpd [On Fedora 22+ versions]
repoquery lists files installed by httpd
Important: In Fedora 22 and above, the repoquery command has been integrated with the dnf package manager in RPM-based distributions, and the above method can be used to list installed files.
In addition, you can also use the following rpm command to list the files in the .rpm package or the installed .rpm package, the following -q and -l means to list the files in the following package:
# rpm -ql httpd
rpm query the installation package of the installed program
Another helpful suggestion is to use -p to list the files in the .rpm before installing.
# rpm -qlp telnet-server-1.2-137.1.i586.rpm
On Debian/Ubuntu distributions, you can use the dpkg command with the -L flag to list the files installed for a given .deb package on a Debian system or its derivatives.
In this example, we list the files installed by the apache2 web server:
$ dpkg -L apache2
dpkg list installed packages
Don't forget to check out other articles on package management in Linux.