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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Red Hat Package Manager

  • Enables a user to build and query software packages
  • Allows the system administrator to install, update, erase and build packages
  • Checks for required disk space and dependencies when installing a package
  • RPM package names are of the format package –version-build.architecture.rpm
    Eg: xfm-1.3.2-13.i386.rpm
  • Use rpm –ivh package name to install the packageIf the package is already installed, or if package that depends on are not installed, RPM will show an error message

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