Software Packages
Submitted by Des on Tue, 10/01/2013 - 14:32
To list all of the packages installed on you system
rpm -qa
Different flavors of linux have different package managers that do a lot of the backgroung work like installing dependencies.
SuSe uses zypper
To install a package named nmap
zypper in nmap
To search for a package using zypper
zypper se nmap
Where is the package installed
which nmap
/usr/bin/nmap
What version of the package is installed
rpm -qf /usr/bin/nmap