RPM Package Manager is a package management system. The name RPM refers to two things: a software package file format, and 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.
Originally developed by Red Hat for Red Hat Linux, RPM is now used by many Linux distributions. It has also been ported to some other operating systems, such as N...
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RPM Package Manager is a package management system. The name RPM refers to two things: a software package file format, and 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.
Originally developed by Red Hat for Red Hat Linux, RPM is now used by many Linux distributions. It has also been ported to some other operating systems, such as Novell NetWare (as of version 6.5 SP3) and IBM's AIX as of version 4.
Originally standing for "Red Hat Package Manager", RPM now stands for "RPM Package Manager", which is a recursive acronym.
Package managers have many advantages over relying on manual installation such as:
RPM also has a few advantages over some other package managers:
RPM has been criticized for a lack of consistency in package names and content which can make automatic dependency handling difficult. However, this is not a problem inherent in the RPM format, but rather...
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