Package Management

rpm

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Overview

The package format used on Red Hat-family systems, and its management command.

Details

Short for RedHat Package Manager: both the package file format and the low-level command for directly manipulating individual packages. It doesn't resolve dependencies on its own, so installing a package directly with it often fails one missing dependency at a time -- in practice it's normally used through a front end like dnf or yum instead.

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