If you had the information available with rpm -qi before installing the package, you might have been able to better decide whether or not to install it. Actually, using rpm -qp allows you to query an rpm file instead of querying the database. All of the queries we've seen so far can be applied to rpm files as well as installed packages. Here are all the examples again, this time employing the -p option:

# rpm -qp xsnow-1.41-1.i386.rpm
xsnow-1.41-1

# rpm -qpi xsnow-1.41-1.i386.rpm
[same output as rpm -qi in the previous panel]

# rpm -qpl xsnow-1.41-1.i386.rpm
/etc/X11/applnk/Games/xsnow.desktop
/usr/X11R6/bin/xsnow
/usr/X11R6/man/man1/xsnow.1x.gz

# rpm -qplc xsnow-1.41-1.i386.rpm
/etc/X11/applnk/Games/xsnow.desktop

# rpm -qpld xsnow-1.41-1.i386.rpm
/usr/X11R6/man/man1/xsnow.1x.gz