RPM Package Manager (originally Red Hat Package Manager, abbreviated RPM) is a package management system. The name RPM refers to two things: a software package file format, and a free software tool which installs, updates, uninstalls, verifies and queries software packaged in this format. RPM was intended primarily for Linux distributions; the file format RPM is the baseline package format of the Linux Standard Base.
RPM is Package Manager for
- Redhat
- Suse
- CentOS
- Fedora
- and many other Linux distributions
From the man page:
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rpm is a powerful Package Manager, which can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and erase individual software packages. A package consists of an archive of files and meta-data used to install and erase the archive files. The meta-data includes helper scripts, file attributes, and descriptive information about the package. Packages come in two varieties: binary packages, used to encapsulate software to be installed, and source packages, containing the source code and recipe necessary to produce binary packages.
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Install RPM package / file
To install a new package use command
Code:
rpm -ivh package.rpm
Install RPM package from internet
To install a new package from internet or over network use yum command:
Code:
yum install package-name
Upgrade RPM package
To upgrade an RPM package use command:
Code:
rpm -Uvh package.rpm
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