Files with the .RPM extension are software packages intended for installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or one of its derivative Linux distributions, such as CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, or Fedora. When you install software by using an RPM file, your system may need to install dependencies for it to run correctly. This is common behavior for the dnf package manager as well, so you may already be familiar with package dependencies. In this tutorial, we will show you how to check the package dependencies for an RPM file on RHEL and similar distros.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to check RPM package dependencies
| Category | Requirements, Conventions or Software Version Used |
|---|---|
| System | Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux |
| Software | N/A |
| Other | Privileged access to your Linux system as root or via the sudo command. |
| Conventions |
# – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command$ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user |
Check RPM package dependencies on Rhel/Centos/Rocky
To check the package dependencies, we will use the
rpm command with the -qpR options.
$ rpm -qpR package.rpm
You will see various information in your terminal about the package, and the package dependencies are listed one per line as seen in the screenshot below.
Now that you have seen the package dependencies, you can continue with installing the package if you would like. We recommend using the dnf command for that:
$ sudo dnf install ./package.rpm