RPM is the package manager for the following Linux Operating Systems: RedHat, CentOS, Fedora and SUSE. Here, I noted down some useful commands to manage RPM packages. Please share if you know other useful RPM commands.
Install a package:
rpm -ivh package_name
Upgrade a package:
rpm -Uvh package_name
Uninstall a package:
rpm -ev package_name
Uninstall a package without checking for its dependencies:
rpm -ev --nodeps package_name
Display the version of the installed package:
rpm -q package_name
Display the name and version of all packages installed in the server:
rpm -qa
Display the packages got installed recently:
rpm -qa --last
To rebuild a corrupted RMP database:
rpm --rebuilddb