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How to List All Libraries and Files in a Package on Linux

yum is a good tool to resolve dependencies of a package, but it cannot list all the libraries and files with definitive path in a package. We should use a more advance utility repoquery to retrieve the information. Since repoquery is included in yum-utils package which is not a default package for most Linux distros, so we should install it first.
[root@test ~]# yum -y install yum-utils
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: ftp.nsysu.edu.tw
 * extras: mirrors.skyshe.cn
 * updates: ftp.nsysu.edu.tw
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package yum-utils.noarch 0:1.1.30-17.el6_5 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package           Arch           Version                 Repository       Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 yum-utils         noarch         1.1.30-17.el6_5         updates         102 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install       1 Package(s)

Total download size: 102 k
Installed size: 302 k
Downloading Packages:
yum-utils-1.1.30-17.el6_5.noarch.rpm                     | 102 kB     00:00
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : yum-utils-1.1.30-17.el6_5.noarch                             1/1
  Verifying  : yum-utils-1.1.30-17.el6_5.noarch                             1/1

Installed:
  yum-utils.noarch 0:1.1.30-17.el6_5

Complete!

Now, let's see an example of listing all libraries and files.
[root@primary01 ~]# repoquery -l mysql-libs.x86_64
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/mysql-x86_64.conf
/etc/my.cnf
/usr/lib64/mysql
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.16
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.16
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.16.0.0
/usr/share/doc/mysql-libs-5.1.73
/usr/share/doc/mysql-libs-5.1.73/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mysql-libs-5.1.73/README.mysql-license
/usr/share/mysql
/usr/share/mysql/charsets
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/Index.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/README
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/armscii8.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/ascii.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp1250.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp1251.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp1256.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp1257.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp850.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp852.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp866.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/dec8.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/geostd8.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/greek.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/hebrew.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/hp8.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/keybcs2.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/koi8r.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/koi8u.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/latin1.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/latin2.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/latin5.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/latin7.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/macce.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/macroman.xml
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/swe7.xml
/usr/share/mysql/czech
/usr/share/mysql/czech/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/danish
/usr/share/mysql/danish/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/dutch
/usr/share/mysql/dutch/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/english
/usr/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/estonian
/usr/share/mysql/estonian/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/french
/usr/share/mysql/french/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/german
/usr/share/mysql/german/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/greek
/usr/share/mysql/greek/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/hungarian
/usr/share/mysql/hungarian/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/italian
/usr/share/mysql/italian/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/japanese
/usr/share/mysql/japanese/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/korean
/usr/share/mysql/korean/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/norwegian
/usr/share/mysql/norwegian-ny
/usr/share/mysql/norwegian-ny/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/norwegian/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/polish
/usr/share/mysql/polish/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/portuguese
/usr/share/mysql/portuguese/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/romanian
/usr/share/mysql/romanian/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/russian
/usr/share/mysql/russian/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/serbian
/usr/share/mysql/serbian/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/slovak
/usr/share/mysql/slovak/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/spanish
/usr/share/mysql/spanish/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/swedish
/usr/share/mysql/swedish/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/ukrainian
/usr/share/mysql/ukrainian/errmsg.sys

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