5.2.2. Listing Packages

⁠5.2.2. Listing Packages

yum list and related commands provide information about packages, package groups, and repositories.

All of Yum's list commands allow you to filter the results by appending one or more glob expressions as arguments. Glob expressions are normal strings of characters which contain one or more of the wildcard characters * (which expands to match any character multiple times) and ? (which expands to match any one character).

Filtering results with glob expressions

Be careful to escape the glob expressions when passing them as arguments to a yum command, otherwise the Bash shell will interpret these expressions as pathname expansions, and potentially pass all files in the current directory that match the globs to yum. To make sure the glob expressions are passed to yum as intended, either:

escape the wildcard characters by preceding them with a backslash character
double-quote or single-quote the entire glob expression.

See Example 5.1, “Listing all ABRT addons and plug-ins using glob expressions” and Example 5.4, “Listing available packages using a single glob expression with escaped wildcard characters” for an example usage of both these methods.

yum list glob_expression…

Lists information on installed and available packages matching all glob expressions.

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Example 5.1. Listing all ABRT addons and plug-ins using glob expressions

Packages with various ABRT addons and plug-ins either begin with “abrt-addon-”, or “abrt-plugin-”. To list these packages, type the following at a shell prompt:

~]# yum list abrt-addon\* abrt-plugin\*
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
abrt-addon-ccpp.x86_64               2.0.2-5.fc15     @fedora
abrt-addon-kerneloops.x86_64         2.0.2-5.fc15     @fedora
abrt-addon-python.x86_64             2.0.2-5.fc15     @fedora
abrt-plugin-bugzilla.x86_64          2.0.2-5.fc15     @fedora
abrt-plugin-logger.x86_64            2.0.2-5.fc15     @fedora
Available Packages
abrt-plugin-mailx.x86_64             2.0.2-5.fc15     updates
abrt-plugin-reportuploader.x86_64    2.0.2-5.fc15     updates
abrt-plugin-rhtsupport.x86_64        2.0.2-5.fc15     updates

yum list all

Lists all installed and available packages.

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Example 5.2. Listing all installed and available packages

~]# yum list all
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
ConsoleKit.x86_64                       0.4.4-1.fc15                  @fedora
ConsoleKit-libs.x86_64                  0.4.4-1.fc15                  @fedora
ConsoleKit-x11.x86_64                   0.4.4-1.fc15                  @fedora
GConf2.x86_64                           2.32.3-1.fc15                 @fedora
GConf2-gtk.x86_64                       2.32.3-1.fc15                 @fedora
ModemManager.x86_64                     0.4-7.git20110201.fc15        @fedora
NetworkManager.x86_64                   1:0.8.998-4.git20110427.fc15  @fedora
NetworkManager-glib.x86_64              1:0.8.998-4.git20110427.fc15  @fedora
NetworkManager-gnome.x86_64             1:0.8.998-4.git20110427.fc15  @fedora
NetworkManager-openconnect.x86_64       0.8.1-9.git20110419.fc15      @fedora
[output truncated]

yum list installed

Lists all packages installed on your system. The rightmost column in the output lists the repository from which the package was retrieved.

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Example 5.3. Listing installed packages using a double-quoted glob expression

To list all installed packages that begin with “krb” followed by exactly one character and a hyphen, type:

~]# yum list installed "krb?-*"
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
krb5-libs.x86_64              1.9-7.fc15              @fedora

yum list available

Lists all available packages in all enabled repositories.

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Example 5.4. Listing available packages using a single glob expression with escaped wildcard characters

To list all available packages with names that contain “gstreamer” and then “plugin”, run the following command:

~]# yum list available gstreamer\*plugin\*
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
gstreamer-plugin-crystalhd.x86_64               3.5.1-1.fc14       fedora
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free.x86_64               0.10.22-1.fc15     updates
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel.x86_64         0.10.22-1.fc15     updates
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs.x86_64    0.10.22-1.fc15     updates
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras.x86_64        0.10.22-1.fc15     updates
gstreamer-plugins-base.x86_64                   0.10.33-1.fc15     updates
gstreamer-plugins-base-devel.x86_64             0.10.33-1.fc15     updates
gstreamer-plugins-base-devel-docs.noarch        0.10.33-1.fc15     updates
gstreamer-plugins-base-tools.x86_64             0.10.33-1.fc15     updates
gstreamer-plugins-espeak.x86_64                 0.3.3-3.fc15       fedora
gstreamer-plugins-fc.x86_64                     0.2-2.fc15         fedora
gstreamer-plugins-good.x86_64                   0.10.29-1.fc15     updates
gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-docs.noarch        0.10.29-1.fc15     updates

yum grouplist

Lists all package groups.

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Example 5.5. Listing all package groups

~]# yum grouplist
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Group Process
Installed Groups:
   Administration Tools
   Design Suite
   Dial-up Networking Support
   Fonts
   GNOME Desktop Environment
[output truncated]

yum repolist

Lists the repository ID, name, and number of packages it provides for each enabled repository.

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Example 5.6. Listing enabled repositories

~]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
repo id                      repo name                                    status
fedora                       Fedora 15 - i386                             19,365
updates                      Fedora 15 - i386 - Updates                   3,848
repolist: 23,213