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Alvin Lucillo

Check rpm file contents

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To view the contents of Red Hat Package Manager (.rpm) files, use rpm2cpio like so:

rpm2cpio google-chrome-stable-137.0.7151.119-1.x86_64.rpm | cpio -tv
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        27769 Jun 17 10:36 ./etc/cron.daily/google-chrome
drwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            0 Jun 17 10:35 ./opt/google/chrome
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            7 Jun 17 10:35 ./opt/google/chrome/CHROME_VERSION_EXTRA
drwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            0 Jun 17 10:35 ./opt/google/chrome/MEIPreload
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          238 Jun 17 10:35 ./opt/google/chrome/MEIPreload/manifest.json
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         8254 Jun 17 10:35 ./opt/google/chrome/MEIPreload/preloaded_data.pb
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