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How can I get a list of all of the RPM packages that have been installed on my system from a particular repo (e.g., "epel")?

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  • Fedora 41 (dnf5)

    repo=X dnf list --installed | grep "${repo}$"

    notes:

    • replace --installed with --available to list all available packages from the repo.
    • the trailing $ symbol above is regular expression syntax for end of line. we're filtering the output of dnf list for lines ending in the repository name.
    • there is an open issue to add support for dnf5 repository filtering.

  • Fedora 36 to 40 (inclusive)

    repo=X dnf repository-packages "${repo}" list --installed

  • CentOS / RHEL / Fedora 22 or earlier

    repo=X yum list installed | grep "${repo}"

  • Fedora 23

    repo=X dnf list installed | grep "${repo}"

  • RHEL8

    repo=X dnf repo-pkgs "${repo}" list installed
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    This will not work. Yum will output lines to the pipe that will be broken if they get too long. So grep's input is mostly one line per package, but it could be two lines. Yum could pass "whizbanger.x86_64 ___ 3.8.4-2.el6 _______________ @epel". (Imagine the underscores as spaces.) The "@epel" is on the next line of the input grep sees. So grep is going to output that line with nothing but "@epel" but not the preceding line with the package name. Commented Mar 7, 2017 at 16:09
  • You may need to run those commands as root until bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525645 is fixed. Commented Dec 13, 2017 at 19:27
  • the yum command doesn't seem to work if one the repos is having issues. i needed this list to see if i wanted to disable the repo with issues. Commented Jun 11, 2018 at 2:22
  • @Todd Watson I know, it is a hack, but what about "export COLUMNS=999 yum..." Commented Aug 20, 2018 at 20:01
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    On my Fedora41, I can use dnf repoquery --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=fedora-cisco-openh264 to show all packages from that repo. Commented Nov 2, 2024 at 20:16
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As of RHEL6, as suggested in this stackoverflow answer, there's a more thorough method of doing this with yumdb:

yumdb search from_repo REPOID*

The repoid takes wild cards.

Pretty-print

If we're going to cheat and pipe the output, then we can achieve pretty-print effect as well. Here's one using awk

yumdb search from_repo REPOID* |awk -F"\n" '{ RS=""; print $1 }'

Using egrep or grep -e

yumdb search from_repo REPOID* |egrep -v '(from_repo|^$)'

list_ALL_AVAILABLE_from_repo

To list all available packages in a specified repository, do:

repoquery -a --repoid=REPONAME
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  • Just a side-note: To list all packages from a specified repo, do repoquery -qa --repoid=REPONAME Commented Dec 15, 2014 at 1:44
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    This is also a great answer. The output is longer than the accepted answer, but it's formatted in a nicer way. Commented Jun 15, 2015 at 10:31
  • Can be simplified to repoquery -a --repoid=REPONAME because according to man page -q option is for rpmquery compatibility, doesn't do anything. Commented Feb 16, 2017 at 2:10
  • @Rockallite is right; for dnf, the -qa actually fails. I can't upvote the comment due to previously removing the upvote :( I'm updating the answer to reflect that. Commented Aug 21, 2018 at 1:47
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    Unfortunately this doesn't work well if packages have been installed using dnf as yum just lists those as 'installed' and doesn't specify the repo they came from. If you have installed packages via dnf the answer from @Peque will work properly Commented May 13, 2020 at 17:12
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dnf repo-pkgs <repoid> list installed

Notes

The command above uses DNF to list the packages installed from the <repoid>. Note repo-pkgs is just an alias of repository-packages.

From the man pages:

man dnf | grep "repository-packages.*list.*installed" -A 1

Further reading:

man dnf
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    Best answer, works also with RHEL 7.7 yum. answers grepping for repo ID fails because sometimes tabulation causes packages and repos to go on different lines. This one is solid though. Commented Apr 7, 2020 at 12:24
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Grepping yum's output is the most obvious way:

yum list installed | grep @epel

However, you can't display extra packages properties and it's difficult to parse with a script. The tool repoquery from the package yum-utils is the tool, but it isn't installed by default.

repoquery -a --installed --qf "%{ui_from_repo} %{name}" | grep '^@epel'

and a more complex example:

repoquery -a --installed --qf "%-20{ui_from_repo} %-30{name} %-7{arch} %{epoch}:%-12{version} %-4{release}" | grep '^@epel'
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RHEL Server 7.5 (Maipo)

yum repo-pkgs <repoid> list installed can be used to retrieve the same info as yumdb search from_repo <repoid>, but in a different format.

# yum help repo-pkgs repo-pkgs <repoid> <list|info|install|remove|upgrade|reinstall*|remove-or-*> [pkg(s)] Treat a repo. as a group of packages, so we can install/remove all of them aliases: repo-packages, repository-pkgs, repository-packages

Sample epel outputs:

# yumdb search from_repo epel htop-2.2.0-1.el7.x86_64 from_repo = epel supervisor-3.1.4-1.el7.noarch from_repo = epel # yum repo-pkgs epel list installed Installed Packages htop.x86_64 2.2.0-1.el7 @epel supervisor.noarch 3.1.4-1.el7 @epel
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You could check the Vendor header of installed rpms.

This example lists all package from VideoLAN repository:

 rpm -q -a --qf "%{Name}:%{Vendor}\n" \ | grep -F ":VideoLAN Project (http://www.videolan.org)"

Obviously, you need to determine if the Vendor header of your repository is unique among different repositories.

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    There isn't a one-to-one mapping between Vendor and repos, and in some cases, the Vendor string is blank. Commented Oct 13, 2011 at 16:36
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For people who just want to find missing repositories:

yum list installed | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq

This should return all repositories where you have packages installed from.

Adding a "-q" flag to yum command will also filter the unnecessary output lines, e.g. loaded plugins, etc.

yum -q list installed | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq
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For RHEL 8:

dnf repository-packages epel list
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    Could you say something about what this does that none of the other answers already accomplishes? Commented Jun 2, 2021 at 7:47

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