Jim Green wrote: > On 13 February 2010 10:27, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at 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. -- Bowie