RPMPEEK(1)

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version 9.6 · 3 versions
, in fedora 43

✨ RPMPEEK(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the rpmpeek page, section 1 of the manual 💅 this one's short and sweet and honestly kind of iconic for how much chaos it saves you.

🎀 NAME 🎀

rpmpeek — execute a command inside the contents of an RPM, no cap 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rpmpeek [-n] [-h] RPM command [args...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the vibe: rpmpeek unpacks the contents of an RPM into a temporary directory, then runs a command while you're standing inside that directory. Very main character. Very "let me just peek inside real quick" 🙈

And the way it cleans up after itself?? The directory is purged upon exit. Not me leaving zero mess behind, periodt 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -n — do not preserve the attributes of the unpacked files. ngl, this is the "I don't care about the metadata" button.
  • -h — show the usage and dip out. 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Alexey Tourbin <at@altlinux.org>. Respect the legend ⭐

🌈 COPYING 🌈

Copyright (c) 2005 Alexey Tourbin, ALT Linux Team.

This 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.

fr fr, that's the whole license blurb — it's free software, go wild, but read the GPL for the actual rules bestie 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

and that's the page!! 🍓 this one ships with rpmdevtools 9.6, dated 2025-08-09 — mwah, slay, go peek inside some RPMs responsibly 🧚💖

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