RPMEXTRA(1)

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version 1.19 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

✨ RPMEXTRA(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to rpmextra 💅 — it's from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and it's literally the tool you want when you're like "why is this package here, where did it come from, who let it in 🙈".

🌸 NAME 🌸

rpmextra — display extra packages : not from distribution repositories 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

rpmextra search for extra packages : packages installed on the system that are not available in any repository listed in the config file ✨

this packages are often installed manually and are not updated as others packages by distribution tools 😭

so basically: it's the vibe check for your packages. if a package is giving "I was not installed by your distro tools", rpmextra will find it, no cap. 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

rpmextra [options]

options:

-help                brief help message
-man                 full documentation
-V, --version        print version
-verbose             verbose

🌈 REQUIRED ARGUMENTS 🌈

none 🫶 — literally zero, she works with nothing, queen behavior 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -help — Print a brief help message and exits. 💌 short and sweet, in and out.
  • -man — Print the manual page and exits. 📖 the full lore drop, then she dips.
  • -version — Print the program release and exit. 🏷️ just the version, nothing else.
  • -verbose — The program works and print debugging messages. 🔍 she starts yapping (affectionately) so you can see everything happening.

💜 USAGE 💜

rpmextra

that's it. that's the whole thing. iconic. ⭐

🦋 DIAGNOSTICS 🦋

the verbose mode allow to see which functions are used 👀 — turn on -verbose and you get the behind-the-scenes commentary, iykyk.

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

  • O if all is ok 🌸
  • >=1 if a problem 😭
heads up bestie, the manual literally writes that first one as a capital O, so we're keeping it exactly as she wrote it.

🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

nothing 🙈 — no config file, no setup, no drama. she just works.

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

RPMEXTRA_METHOD

for experts/developers only : allow to force the method used to get rpm data. It can be set to repoquery/dnf/yum/package-cleanup/urpmq/zypper 🔥

fr fr, this one is for the experts/developers only — if that's not you, hands off the keyboard bestie 💅

🌟 DEPENDENCIES 🌟

rpmextra depends upon rpm package managers. it can use yum/dnf (Redhat), urpmi (Mandriva), zypper (Suse) tools 👑

🍓 INCOMPATIBILITIES 🍓

not known ✨ — no beef detected, we're all good.

😭 BUGS AND LIMITATIONS 😭

the program does not work well on program installed with several versions 💀

yeah... multiple versions of the same thing and she gets a little confused. not her fault, that's just messy.

🌈 NOTES 🌈

this program can be used as "normal" user 🫶 — no root required, no sudo moment, you're the main character and you can run it yourself.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole rpm family reunion, we love to see it 💜

Copyright (C) 2008 by Eric Gerbier This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

💌 AUTHOR 💌

Eric Gerbier

you can report any bug or suggest to gerbier@users.sourceforge.net 🐛✨

and that's the whole page bestie, periodt 💅✨

this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — and RPMEXTRA(1) is out, love u, bye 🫶🎀

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