16.8 Tools for RPM Archives and the RPM Database

Midnight Commander (mc) can display the contents of RPM archives and copy parts of them. It represents archives as virtual file systems, offering all usual menu options of Midnight Commander. Display the HEADER with F3. View the archive structure with the cursor keys and Enter. Copy archive components with F5.

offers the kpackage tool as a front-end for rpm. A full-featured package manager is available as a YaST module (see Section 7.3.1, Installing and Removing Software).