How to know from which yum repository a package has been installed?

Question

After I have installed a package by yum (with multiple repositories configured), how can I find from which repository it has been installed?

If I run yum info package-name (or yum list package-name), I can only see that the package is "installed".

Solution 1

With yum-utils installed, repoquery will provide the information you seek (here 'epel' being the repository).

$ repoquery -i cherokee

Name        : cherokee
Version     : 0.99.49
Release     : 1.el5
Architecture: i386
Size        : 8495964
Packager    : Fedora Project
Group       : Applications/Internet
URL         : http://www.cherokee-project.com/
Repository  : epel
Summary     : Flexible and Fast Webserver
Description :
Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports
the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL
encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding,
Apache compatible log files, and much more.

Solution 2

What version of yum?

On the current version if the installed package is the same version as the most recent one available then the repo it was installed from is shown.

$ yum info irssi
Installed Packages
Name       : irssi
Arch       : i586
Version    : 0.8.14
Release    : 1.fc11
Size       : 2.3 M
Repo       : installed
From repo  : updates
Summary    : Modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting
URL        : http://irssi.org/
License    : GPLv2+
Description: Irssi is a modular IRC client with Perl scripting. Only text-mode
           : frontend is currently supported. The GTK/GNOME frontend is no
           : longer being maintained.

$ yum --version
3.2.23

If there is a newer package available, then it will be shown separately, with the new version showing the repo it's available from.

Solution 3

Coming way to late but (at least on Fedora 15) one can use yumdb for similar queries:

yumdb info 'python*'

And what I actually needed to list packages from given repo(s):

yumdb search from_repo 'my-*-repo'

Solution 4

If all else fails, you can inspect the yumdb manually. It's located in /var/lib/yum/yumdb and contains detailed information on every installed package. You'll be particularly interested in from_repo. For example, for the bind-utils package:

# for i in /var/lib/yum/yumdb/b/*bind-utils*/*; do echo $i: `cat $i`; done
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/b/73ea08770fa666e18c59842bf65fa0f3a0b103d8-bind-utils-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1-x86_64/checksum_data: 39f7840f93d3d76825a9e8da79cfe0366f7fad68f018a273477aee62cccfa3f4
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/b/73ea08770fa666e18c59842bf65fa0f3a0b103d8-bind-utils-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1-x86_64/checksum_type: sha256
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/b/73ea08770fa666e18c59842bf65fa0f3a0b103d8-bind-utils-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1-x86_64/command_line: install bind-utils
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/b/73ea08770fa666e18c59842bf65fa0f3a0b103d8-bind-utils-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1-x86_64/from_repo: updates
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/b/73ea08770fa666e18c59842bf65fa0f3a0b103d8-bind-utils-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1-x86_64/from_repo_revision: 1397654451
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/b/73ea08770fa666e18c59842bf65fa0f3a0b103d8-bind-utils-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1-x86_64/from_repo_timestamp: 1397654759
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/b/73ea08770fa666e18c59842bf65fa0f3a0b103d8-bind-utils-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1-x86_64/installed_by: 0
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/b/73ea08770fa666e18c59842bf65fa0f3a0b103d8-bind-utils-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1-x86_64/reason: user
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/b/73ea08770fa666e18c59842bf65fa0f3a0b103d8-bind-utils-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1-x86_64/releasever: 6

To get just the information you want:

# cat /var/lib/yum/yumdb/b/*bind-utils*/from_repo
updates

Later versions will provide even more data; for instance in EL 7 the exact mirror and URL from which the package was downloaded is stored here.

Solution 5

rpm -qi packagename

Will tell you the vendor and packager

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Comments

[Carlos Abalde]

Great question! I installed yum-utils and tried one it's utils called repoquery, but no luck.

[warren]

see also serverfault.com/questions/90409/… :)

[Trevor Boyd Smith]

@warren your link is not useful because your link is a question about "what repo is an rpm stored in" but this question asks "what repo is an INSTALLED rpm from". different questions.

[Trevor Boyd Smith]

if you are used to doing rpm -qa|grep NAME then you can do yum list installed|grep NAME to find what repo the rpm is from.

[warren]

@TrevorBoydSmith - 7 years ago, it was close. Today, it's still similar. Never said it was the same. Just that it was related.

[lg.]

I'm using yum 3.2.19 on CentOs 5.3 and "From repo" row doesn't exist.

[Alex]

Yep...I was testing it on 3.2.21, which doesn't have that info anywhere. When I did it on my box that has 3.2.23, it worked.

[lg.]

This is true only is the package is not yet installed.

[lg.]

This solution maybe an option (I vote it), but only for recent installed package, because I can change the repository and their priority.

[lg.]

This solution maybe an option (I vote it), but I am looking for a definitive answer.

[lg.]

Now this is the best solution, but not applicable for RHEL/Centos 5.3. I accept this solution, but I ready to choose another answer if will be applicable also for RHEL/Centos 5.3.

[wolfand11]

repoquery does not seem to work right, i get different package versions then yum info package_name, it does not seem to query the repositories in the same order as yum.

[wolfand11]

This is a no-go in CentOS 5.5 either.

[lg.]

In this way (adding a pipe whith grep -i package name) I discover the vendor, but not the repository.

[lg.]

It works also on Fedora 14

[pixelbeat]

works on RHEL 6.2

[Matteo]

The vendor has (almost) nothing to do with the repository.

[baseem beg]

Same here on a few servers. yum info package_name returns more results than repoquery apparently. This is why stack exchange should not lock in votes.

[Admin]

I found Xiong Chiamiov's answer not correct. repoquery -i $pkg gives repo from which a $pkg is available, not the repo from which the $pkg was installed. I did that command and rpm -qi $pkg and got different version numbers. rpm resulted in an earlier version number than that of repoquery.

[sepehr]

"From rep" is not available even in centos 5.8

[Silver Moon]

the yum command will just show "Repo : installed" which means nothing

[Xiong Chiamiov]

It's possible your local copy is out-of-date, or it was installed with additional commands to yum (e.g. --use-mirror). I don't think it's possible to always get the right answer.

[lreeder]

While it doesn't answer the OPs question exactly, it was very helpful for me because it works in Centoss 5.5 with just yum and no other utils, and you can: 1. Uninstall the package then query to see where the repo is then reinstall, or 2. Query on a different machine without the package installed.

[Greg Dubicki]

+1. But it's even better to do something like: for i in /var/lib/yum/yumdb/b/*bind-utils*/*; do echo $i: `cat $i` | grep -oP 'from_repo:\ \K.*'; done, which in the above example returns: updates - much more readable!

[Michael Hampton]

@GregDubicki The point of the command was to show more of the context of what is going on and how things are stored. It apparently failed to do so: There is no need to grep anything here, and you can even drop the loop. A very simple cat /var/lib/yum/yumdb/b/*bind-utils*/from_repo is all you need.

[Mark Edington]

This seems to be the only solution that does not require installing yum-utils.

[Mark Edington]

From an answer below, when passed the -v (verbose) flag, yum info has "From repo: " entry.

[frogstarr78]

This only lists "installed" for me.

[Warwick]

This is what I needed. I wanted to know whether an installed package was installed from a repo or a local package file, and this tells me that information. Thanks!

[Steve Bonds]

Great answer! I used this to establish a unique list of what all repos were in use on a given server via: # for file in $(find /var/lib/yum/yumdb -name "from_repo" -print); do (cat "${file}"; echo); done | sort -u

[bto]

Caveat! If you're trying to do this in a script (or even | it to less or grep), the lines will get oddly wrapped because it assumes a default screen width. You need to do a bit of magic to get the "expected" formatting of one package per line (via Allen Kistler via bugzilla) - yum list installed | tr "\n" "#" | sed -e 's/# / /g' | tr "#" "\n"

[M_dk]

This answer is incorrect, as stated above it shows from where a package is available, not where it was installed from as asked.

[pevik]

NOTE: provides subcommand is supported also by dnf.