On 27 Mar 2005, at 8:03, Colin Walters wrote: > > Part of the reason I ask is I'm wondering what is (or will be) the > > correct way to query locally installed RPMs. > > I think Robin's correct; your best bet now is just to invoke rpm. > Alternatively there might be Java bindings to the librpm. I haven't used this, but found it by accident some time ago and bookmarked it. It might give the start you're after. <URL:http://jrpm.sourceforge.net/>