This post looks at how to list the installed packages with YUM from the command line for YUM based Linux distributions, such as CentOS and Fedora.
It’s very simple:
yum list installed
This will result in a list of all installed packages in case-sensitive alphabetical order, like in the following example:
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Installed Packages Deployment_Guide-en-US.noarch 5.1.0-11.el5.centos.1 installed GConf2.i386 2.14.0-9.el5 installed GConf2.x86_64 2.14.0-9.el5 installed ImageMagick.i386 6.2.8.0-3.el5.4 installed ImageMagick.x86_64 6.2.8.0-3.el5.4 installed MAKEDEV.x86_64 3.23-1.2 installed NetworkManager.x86_64 1:0.6.4-6.el5 installed ORBit2.i386 2.14.3-4.el5 installed ORBit2.x86_64 2.14.3-4.el5 installed SysVinit.x86_64 2.86-14 installed acl.x86_64 2.2.39-2.1.el5 installed acpid.x86_64 1.0.4-5 installed ... zip.x86_64 2.31-1.2.2 installed zlib.x86_64 1.2.3-3 installed zlib.i386 1.2.3-3 installed zlib-devel.i386 1.2.3-3 installed zlib-devel.x86_64 1.2.3-3 installed
The list is going to be pretty long, so you might want to pipe it through “more” or “less” so you can scroll through it a page at a time:
yum list installed | more yum list installed | less
or direct it out to a file for viewing in a text editor:
yum list installed > /tmp/yum-list.txt
If you need to see all packages, installed and available, you can use:
yum list all
Or maybe just available packages:
yum list available
