Red Hat, Fedora and Ubuntu package operations

v. Red Hat, Fedora and Ubuntu package operation comparison

Task	Red Hat, Fedora	Ubuntu
Basic information
Package suffix	*.rpm	*.deb
Software Source configuration file	/etc/yum.conf	/etc/apt/sources.list
Install, remove, upgrade packages
Update package List	Automatically execute each time Yum is run	Apt-get Update
Installing software from software Warehouse software	Yum Install package	Apt-get Install Package
Install a downloaded package	Yum Install pkg.rpm rpm-i pkg.rpm	Dpkg-i Pkg.deb Pkg–install Pkg.deb
Remove Package	RPM-E Package	Apt-get Remove Package
Package upgrade Check/test	Yum Check-update	Apt-get-s Upgrade Apt-get-s Dist-upgrade
Upgrade Packages	Yum update RPM-UVH [args]	Apt-get Upgrade
Upgrade the entire system	Yum Upgrade	Apt-get Dist-upgrade
Package information
Get information about a package	Yum Search Package	Apt-cache Show Package
Get information on all packages	Yum List available	Apt-cache Dumpavail
Show all installed software	Yum List installed Rpm-qa	Dpkg-l dpkg–list
To obtain information about an installed package	Yum Info Package Rpm-qi Package	Dpkg–status Package
Lists the list of files that are included in an installed package	RPM-QL Package
List the documents that are included with an installed package	RPM-QD Package	No
List the configuration files that are included with an installed package	RPM-QC Package	No
Displays a list of packages on which a package depends	RPM-QR Package	Apt-cache depends package
Show reverse dependencies for a package	Rpm-q-whatrequires [args]	Apt-cache Rdepends Package
Package file Information
Get information about a package file	Rpm-qpi pkg.rpm	Dpkg–info Pkg.deb
Get a list of files that a package file contains	RPM-QPL pkg.rpm	Dpkg–contents Pkg.deb
Get the documents contained in a package file	RPM-QPD pkg.rpm	No
Get the configuration file that a package file contains	RPM-QPC pkg.rpm	No
Package Decompression	Rpm2cpio pkg.rpm | Cpio-vid	Dpkg-deb–extract Pkg.deb
Search for a file that is installed by which package	Rpm-qf/file/name	Dpkg-s/file/name Dpkg–search/file/name
Search all packages that provide a file	Yum Provides/file/name	Apt-file Search/file/name
Miscellaneous
Displays the status of the local package cache	No	Apt-cache Stats
Verifying all installed Packages	Rpm-va	Debsums
Delete all packages that are cached locally	Yum Clean Packages	Apt-get Clean
Remove obsolete packages from the local cache only	No	Apt-get AutoClean
Remove all package information	Yum Clean headers	Apt-file Purge

Red Hat, Fedora and Ubuntu package operations