RPM best practices

Install

Test first:

$ rpm -i --test analog-6.0-1.rh8.i386.rpm 

You can install from a URL:

$ rpm -ivv http://www.iddl.vt.edu/~jackie/analog/analog-6.0-1.rh8.i386.rpm

Query

by package name:

$ rpm -q -ip analog-6.0-1.rh8.i386.rpm 

filename -> package:

$ rpm -q -f /usr/bin/analog