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7:30 AM Packages in use A command line to find which RPM packages are in use by the system at this very moment. This can be useful if you are in the process of determining which packages to remove from a system that has a lot of unnecessary software installed, but you're also running nonstandard software such as the Sun JRE so you can't be sure that RPM's dependency tracking is enough.

To do this, we look at all libraries currently mapped in place by all running processes, as well as the file each process is executing, and then look at which RPMs those files belong to.

awk '{print $NF}' /proc/*/maps \
| sort - <(for A in /proc/*/exe; do readlink $A; done) \
| uniq \
| grep / \
| while read FILE; do rpm -q --queryformat='%{NAME}\n' -f $FILE 2>/dev/null; done \
| grep -v 'is not owned' \
| sort \
| uniq

You can omit the --queryformat='%{NAME}\n' part if you want the RPM version numbers to be included, in case you have multiple versions of some packages installed.

This has only been tested on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. If you don't have readlink, you could try ls -l $A | awk '{print $NF}' instead.

Note that this will only catch dependencies that are memory mapped, such as system libraries. It won't catch files that are only read occasionally or which aren't memory mapped.

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