15 Feb
2010
15 Feb
'10
3:40 p.m.
Jim Green wrote:
On 13 February 2010 10:27, Robert P. J. Day rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Jim Green wrote:
$ rpm -qa # list all installed packages
yum list installed
I use rpm for basic stuff because it runs faster. For example:
$ time yum list installed ... real 0m17.069s user 0m0.857s sys 0m0.675s
$ time rpm -qa ... real 0m4.714s user 0m4.457s sys 0m0.120s
Yum tends to take a while to read in its databases before it processes your command. So for simple commands, it is faster to use rpm. On slow boxes, it can be significantly faster.
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Bowie