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urpmi
Original author(s)	Pascal Rigaux
Developer(s)	Thierry Vignaud
Stable release	8.133.1 / June 2, 2024; 6 months ago
Written in	Perl
Operating system	Linux
Type	Package management system
Website	metacpan.org/release/urpmi

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urpmi is a package management tool for installing, removing, updating and querying software packages of local or remote (networked) media. It wraps around the RPM Package Manager in the role of a smart package manager. It uses repositories and will resolve dependencies so that the user will not suffer from dependency hell that can happen when using RPM directly. It works with official sources from Mandriva or unofficial sources such as those from the Penguin Liberation Front. It has a graphical front-end: Rpmdrake.

It's made of 2 parts:

a low level C/perl bindings
a higher level perl code implementing the advanced algorithms

In addition to the now-defunct Mandriva Linux, it is also being used by:

Uruk GNU/Linux, a 100% free software system origin in Iraq, based on this package manager virtually for Uruk package manager simulator, and Linux-libre kernels and apt real package manager from Trisquel, also named after a city in Iraq
Mageia, a French fork of Mandriva Linux that for a time was the base for future Mandriva products but is now an independent community driven Linux distribution.
ROSA Linux, a Russian fork of Mandriva Linux that is the base for future OpenMandriva products.^[1]

History

urpmi was developed as an experiment by Pascal Rigaux (Pixel) to address RPM install limitations; it was further maintained by François Pons and different Mandriva employees. It is currently (2010–2024) maintained by Thierry Vignaud who was the maintainer of rpmdrake^[2] and one of the co-maintainers of the drakx installer and tools at Mandriva before he continued doing that job at Mageia.

Per Øyvind Karlsen maintained a fork of urpmi at Rosa Linux, backporting fixes and improvements from Thierry Vignaud work,^[3]^[4] but this is not the version that was used by Mandriva Business Server (which was based on Mageia). This fork died around 2013 (date of last commit).

Commands

Generic commands

Install package	`urpmi <package_name>`
Uninstall package with link (dependencies)	`urpme <package_name>`
Query the package database	`urpmq <package_name>`
Find package that contains a file	`urpmf <file>`
Find package knowing only a part of an rpm name	`urpmq --fuzzy <part-of-package_name>`
Update your package list	`urpmi.update -a`
Update your system (using all repositories)	`urpmi --auto-select`
Update your system (only using update repositories)	`urpmi --update --auto-select`

Useful commands

Find package containing <word> in their name	`urpmq -y <word>`
Find package without link (dependencies)	`urpmi_rpm-find-leaves`

References

^ distrowatch.com: OpenMandriva
^ "[soft] Contents of /Rpmdrake/Trunk/NEWS". Archived from the original on 2015-05-23. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
^ "[soft] Revision 7297".
^ "[PATCH] add basic support for --downgrade (mga#6655)". Retrieved 2024-01-22.

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[1] strowatch.com: OpenMandriva

[2] "[soft] Contents of /Rpmdrake/Trunk/NEWS". Archived from the original on 2015-05-23. Retrieved 2015-05-23.

[3] "[soft] Revision 7297".

[4] "[PATCH] add basic support for --downgrade (mga#6655)". Retrieved 2024-01-22.

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-'''urpmi''' is a [[Mageia]]/[[Mandriva Linux]] [[package management]] tool for installing, removing, updating and querying software packages of local or remote (networked) media. It wraps around the [[RPM Package Manager]] ([[RPM Package Manager|RPM]]) package manager so that the user will not suffer the often-encountered{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} [[dependency hell]]. It works with official sources from Mandriva or unofficial sources such as those from the [[Penguin Liberation Front]]. It has a graphical front-end: [[Rpmdrake]].
+'''urpmi''' is a [[package management]] tool for installing, removing, updating and querying software packages of local or remote (networked) media. It wraps around the [[RPM Package Manager]] in the role of a smart package manager. It uses repositories and will resolve dependencies so that the user will not suffer from [[dependency hell]] that can happen when using RPM directly. It works with official sources from Mandriva or unofficial sources such as those from the Penguin Liberation Front. It has a graphical front-end: [[Rpmdrake]].
+It's made of 2 parts:
+* a low level [https://metacpan.org/release/URPM C/perl bindings]
+* a higher level [https://metacpan.org/release/urpmi perl code] implementing the advanced algorithms
 In addition to the now-defunct Mandriva Linux, it is also being used by:
+*[[Uruk GNU/Linux]], a 100% free software system origin in [[Iraq]], based on this package manager virtually for Uruk package manager simulator, and [[Linux-libre]] kernels and [[APT (Debian)|apt]] real package manager from [[Trisquel]], also named after a city in Iraq
-* [[Mageia|Mageia Linux]] (a fork of Mandriva Linux that is the base for future Mandriva products<ref>http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/12/10/mbs-peek/</ref>)
-*  [[ROSA Linux]] (a fork of Mandriva Linux that is the base for future OpenMandriva products<ref>[http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=openmandriva distrowatch.com: OpenMandriva]</ref>).
+*[[Mageia]], a French fork of Mandriva Linux that for a time was the base for future Mandriva products but is now an independent community driven Linux distribution.
+*[[ROSA Linux]], a Russian fork of Mandriva Linux that is the base for future OpenMandriva products.<ref>[http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=openmandriva distrowatch.com: OpenMandriva]</ref>
 ==History==
-'''urpmi''' was developed as an experiment by [[Pascal Rigaux]] (Pixel) to address [[RPM Package Manager|RPM]] install limitations; it was further maintained by [[François Pons]] and different [[Mandriva]] employees. It is currently (2010-2013) maintained by Thierry Vignaud who was the maintainer of rpmdrake<ref>http://svn.mandriva.com/viewvc/soft/rpmdrake/trunk/NEWS?revision=273200&view=markup</ref> and one of the co-maintainers of the drakx installer and tools at Mandriva before he continued doing that job at Mageia.
+'''urpmi''' was developed as an experiment by [[Pascal Rigaux]] (Pixel) to address [[RPM Package Manager|RPM]] install limitations; it was further maintained by [[François Pons]] and different [[Mandriva]] employees. It is currently (2010–2024) maintained by Thierry Vignaud who was the maintainer of rpmdrake<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://svn.mandriva.com/viewvc/soft/rpmdrake/trunk/NEWS?revision=273200&view=markup |title=&#91;soft&#93; Contents of /Rpmdrake/Trunk/NEWS |access-date=2015-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150523165549/http://svn.mandriva.com/viewvc/soft/rpmdrake/trunk/NEWS?revision=273200&view=markup |archive-date=2015-05-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and one of the co-maintainers of the drakx installer and tools at Mandriva before he continued doing that job at Mageia.
-This is the version that will be used by Mandriva in its future products which will be based on Mageia.<ref>http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/12/10/mbs-peek/</ref>
-[[Per Øyvind Karlsen]] maintains a fork of urpmi at [[Rosa Linux]], backporting fixes and improvements from Thierry Vignaud work,<ref>http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft?view=revision&revision=7297</ref><ref>https://abf.rosalinux.ru/proyvind/urpmi/commit/11e4718ce2a1bf814bcb1a68d2490e2ff3a8ca34.patch</ref> but this is not the version used by Mandriva Business Server (which is based on Mageia).
+Per Øyvind Karlsen maintained a fork of urpmi at [[Rosa Linux]], backporting fixes and improvements from Thierry Vignaud work,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft?view=revision&revision=7297|title=&#91;soft&#93; Revision 7297}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://abf.rosalinux.ru/proyvind/urpmi/commit/11e4718ce2a1bf814bcb1a68d2490e2ff3a8ca34.patch |title=[PATCH] add basic support for --downgrade (mga#6655) | access-date=2024-01-22}}</ref> but this is not the version that was used by Mandriva Business Server (which was based on Mageia). This fork died around 2013 (date of last commit).
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 ==External links==
 * {{Official website|https://wiki.mageia.org/en/URPMI}}
+* [https://metacpan.org/release/URPM CPAN page for the low level C/perl bindings]
+* [https://metacpan.org/release/urpmi CPAN page for the high level perl code]
 {{Linux package management systems}}
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 [[Category:Linux package management-related software]]
 [[Category:Mandriva Linux]]
+[[Category:Free software programmed in Perl]]

v t e Linux package management systems
dpkg	APT KPackage Synaptic Ubuntu Software Center aptitude dselect
RPM	APT-RPM DNF up2date urpmi Rpmdrake YUM ZYpp
Embedded systems	ipkg opkg
Distribution-agnostic	AppImage Flatpak GNU Guix Homebrew Nix pkgsrc Snap
Others (binary)	Entropy netpkg pacman PiSi PPM slackpkg slapt-get swaret upkg
Others (source)	Sorcery Portage
Front-ends	Autopackage Listaller PackageKit GNOME Software Apper
Related topics	AppStream Package format
Linux portal Free and open-source software portal List Category Commons Italics indicates a discontinued or inactive package management system.