urpmi is a Mandriva Linux package management tool for installing, removing, updating and querying software packages of local or remote (networked) media. It wraps around the package manager rpm with the aim that the user should not have to suffer the often-encountered[citation needed] dependency hell. It works with official sources from Mandriva or unofficial sources such as those from the Penguin Liberation Front. It has a graphical front-end: Rpmdrake.
[edit] History
urpmi was developed as an experimentation by Pascal Rigaux (Pixel) to address RPM install limitation, it was further maintained by François Pons and different Mandriva employees. It is currently (2010) maintained by Per Øyvind Karlsen.
[edit] Commands
[edit] Generic commands
| Install package |
urpmi <package_name> |
| Uninstall package with link (dependencies) |
urpme <package_name> |
| Query the package database |
urpmq <package_name> |
| Find package that contains a file |
urpmf <file> |
| Find package knowing only a part of an rpm name |
urpmq—fuzzy <part-of-package_name> |
| Update your package list |
urpmi.update -a |
| Update your system (using all repositories) |
urpmi—auto-select |
| Update your system (only using update repositories) |
urpmi—update—auto-select |
[edit] Useful commands
| Find package containing <word> in their name |
urpmi -y <word> |
| Find package without link (dependencies) |
urpmi_rpm-find-leaves |
[edit] External links
