Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1) Installed from: Compiled From Sources Compiler: egcs-2.96 OS: Linux I guess that easy way to look (and manage) RPM packages is use special rpm:/ kioslave in Konqueror. Installed RPM list is like file hierarchy and it will be very useful to show all packages via 'rpm:/*' or browse through group tree like 'rpm:/Application/Archiving'. This kioslave may use kpackage component or direct access to rpm list via rpm libraries (in this case kdeadmin package isn't need).
This belongs with kpackage. We don't want to duplicate functionality, so it has to be integrated.
A related wish would be another kioslave (or protocol?) to view (and copy) the contents of rpm-files. That protocol should function like the kioslaves for bzip2 or gzip: that is as a filter, if I am correct. (Therefore the name of this second protocol is not really important: package would be fine.) My idea is that you should be able to click on an rpm-file in Konqueror to view the contents of that rpm-file and also to copy files out of the rpm-file. Moreover one should be also see a "file" that shows all "meta-data" (info, requires, scripts, changelog, etc). This would basically mean that the functionality of "rpm -qp (...)" and of "rpm2cpio" would be available through Konqueror (so that this funcionality wouyld finally be easy to use ...) I realize that my wish might be rather complicated, to say the least ... Please let me know whether you need further information.
Sorry to disagree again, but RPM Packages weren't made to have files extracted from individually. They are supposed to be installed as a whole (all files) or none. So, the primary purpose of RPM is to install -- and that's the option that IMO the user should be presented when clicking an .rpm file. That doesn't mean that the ability to see the contents of a package and the contents of files within packages (= ability to extract files) should not be present. As for filters, it might be too much of a hassle to implement for those few cases.
Thanks for commenting on my comment (and on my bug 60942 too). I will not repeat here what I've said in that bugreport (and further comment). I would just like to mention that I just discovered, after doing some further "research" on my wish, that the way Midnight Commander (a text based "shell" - if that's the correct name) handles rpm's is a very nice example of what I would like Konqueror to be able to do too.
KPackage was recently removed from KDE SC (since 4.4 beta2) as it was completely broken and unmaintained. Most of the common GNU/Linux distributions offer their own tools to deal with packages, and KDE is working on an universal package manager replacement named "Shaman" (to superseed KPackageKit) Closing the KPackage's bug reports as UNMAINTAINED. Regards