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Replicate RPM Packages

Output specific installed packages from rpm without version or arch to install on another system (server)

Tiago Reis

Jan 29, 2023 • 1 min read

Something that makes part of our day..replicate some RPM's to another server foreasy installation without the version or arch.

Let's get all RPM's to a file:

rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}\n" > /tmp/all-rpms

But, I just need for PHP (example):

rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}\n" | grep 'php-' > /tmp/php-rpms

This will output something like this:

# cat /tmp/php-rpms
php-pecl-jsonc
php-process
php-pear
php-mysqlnd
php-pecl-imagick
php-mbstring
php-common
php-pecl-msgpack
php-pecl-igbinary
php-xmlrpc
php-soap
php-pecl-zip

Package per line

Transfer to the new serverNow that we have that file on the new server, let's install all the RPM with asingle command:

yum install -y $(cat /tmp/php-rpms)

Install all packages inside php-rpms file

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