Where do installed RPMs go

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I download and install packages on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 machine using YUM package manager in command-line mode.

When I install apk files on my Android phone, they go to /data/app directory, I am wondering where RHEL6 keeps its installed rpm files?

Best Answer

Yum maintains a cache of the RPMs it downloads here:

/var/cache/yum/<you architecture>/<OS version>/

For example my box is Fedora 14, x86_64 architecture so I have the following:

$ ls /var/cache/yum/x86_64/14/
adobe-linux-i386        lamolabs                                  rpmfusion-nonfree
adobe-linux-x86_64      lamolabs-noarch                           rpmfusion-nonfree-debuginfo
Dropbox                 nautilus-flickr-uploader                  rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide-debuginfo
fedora                  qm                                        rpmfusion-nonfree-source
...
...

But the RPMs that get installed are basically like a zip or tar file. So the contents of these files get dumped into the system and RPM maintains a database of what packages it has installed. The RPM "database" is located in this directory:

$ ls /var/lib/rpm
Basenames     __db.002  Dirnames     Installtid    Packages        Pubkeys         Sha1header
Conflictname  __db.003  Filedigests  Name          Providename     Requirename     Sigmd5
__db.001      __db.004  Group        Obsoletename  Provideversion  Requireversion  Triggername

You can see where files get installed per each RPM with these commands.

what files are in an installed RPM

$ rpm -ql rpm
/bin/rpm
/etc/rpm
/usr/bin/rpm2cpio
/usr/bin/rpmdb
/usr/bin/rpmquery
/usr/bin/rpmsign
/usr/bin/rpmverify
/usr/lib/rpm
/usr/lib/rpm/macros
/usr/lib/rpm/platform
/usr/lib/rpm/platform/amd64-linux
...
...

package info about a given RPM

$ rpm -qi rpm
Name        : rpm                          Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 4.8.1                             Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 7.fc14                        Build Date: Tue 04 Oct 2011 03:49:08 AM EDT
Install Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011 09:36:34 AM EDT      Build Host: x86-05.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: rpm-4.8.1-7.fc14.src.rpm
Size        : 2035701                          License: GPLv2+
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Tue 04 Oct 2011 12:14:48 PM EDT, Key ID 421caddb97a1071f
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://www.rpm.org/
Summary     : The RPM package management system
Description :
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven
package management system capable of installing, uninstalling,
verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software
package consists of an archive of files along with information about
the package like its version, a description, etc.
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