RPM related software

RPM "guis"

GNORPM


A very nice gui for the GNOME desktop enviroment. Includes rpmfind capilities.

grpm


An earlier attempt at a gnome gui. Now deprecated

xrpm


A python/tk based gui for rpm.

kpackage


The rpm gui interface for the KDE desktop enviroment

grpmi


Part of the Mandrake Project

pkgview


A rpm viewer based on the FOX widget kit

managerpm


A module for the Linuxconf utility

Rpm Browser For Windows


View and unpack RPMS under windows.

Rpmfind and friends

rpm2html


A program to generate detailed indexes of rpm mirror sites. Also used to generate the data format for the rpmfind tool.

rpmfind


A tool to let a user query a rpmfind server, ask for an rpm, find it, and figure out any dependencies they require, and download them. Very nice.

RPM and CVS integration

CvsRpmBuilder


Shell script to build RPMS out of GNOME cvs, and probabaly other CVS modules

gduild


Designed to allow building of gnome-cvs modules inluding making RPMS, but useful for creating RPMS out of CVS

rpm-cvs


Information on building a RPM from a CVS source tree.

Text or console apps

glitter


Glitter is a text-mode interface to the RPM package management tool.

purp


A ncurses based rpm handler

Spec file helpers

GNOME Rpm Workstation


A gui tool to build spec files and rpms for the GNOME desktop.

rpmbuilder


A Tk based gui app for building rpms and spec files

rpm-spec-mode


Spec file mode for the emacs text editor.

pkgbuild


A FOX based gui app for building spec files and rpms.

Rpm Updaters

AutoRpm


Perl script to update a system against a set of rpms from any source.

rpmwatch


Tracks installed packages against those lsited on Red Hat's Errata page.

rhlupdate


A script to update a Red Hat system by installing upgraded rpms.

rpmupgrade


Shell script to facilitate flexible upgrading of RPM files.

rpm-updates


A perl script to automate updating of rpm's.

harvester


This Python script queries a given selection of remote web pages and/or FTP directories to find RPMs newer than those installed on your system.

Misc utils

rpm2cpio.pl


The rpm2cpio converter written in perl.

rpm.cgi


RPM.CGI allows browsing of the diffent RPMs installed on a system and provides different pages for the different information stored in the RPM database.

alien


Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats

rpm-utils


RPM-Utils is a collection of scripts for dealing with Red Hat Packages (RPMs). There are files that will check a directory of RPMs against those already installed, extract only a certain file from an RPM, or search directories for files that do not belong to an RPM.

rpm-query


This package is a Web-Interface to search for installed RPM-Packages and to list information on them.

pkgmaker


PkgMaker is a tool to build a Solaris package in the standard pkgadd format, from an RPM source package.

jrpm


A Japanese rpm project.