Midnight Commander (mc) can
display the contents of RPM archives and copy parts of them. It represents
archives as virtual file systems, offering all usual menu options of
Midnight Commander. Display the HEADER
with
F3. View the archive structure with
the cursor keys and Enter. Copy archive components
with F5.
KDE offers the kpackage tool as a front-end for rpm. A full-featured package manager is available as a YaST module (see Section 7.3.1, “Installing and Removing Software”).