RPM packages can be placed into groups, merely arbitrary names for a set of packages. The rpm –qi command, shown previously, lists the group for a package, if there is one. For the tcsh package shown in the previous example, the package is System Environment/Shells.

The –g option to the rpm –q command tells the rpm command to list all the packages in a given group. You can also use the longer option, --group, in place of –g. The basic syntax follows:

rpm –qg group_name

For example:

# rpm -qg "System Environment/Shells"

bash-2.05b-5

sh-utils-2.0.12-3

ash-0.3.8-5

tcsh-6.12-2

Note

This group has a space in its name, so you need quotation marks to pass the group name as one parameter to the rpm command.