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Today, I will talk to you about the meaning of rpm in linux. Many people may not know much about it. In order to make you understand better, the editor summarized the following content for you. I hope you can get something according to this article.

RPM is the abbreviation of RedHat Package Manager (RedHat software package management tool). Although the file format name is marked with the logo of RedHat, its original design concept is open, including OpenLinux, S.u.S.E. And Linux distributions such as Turbo Linux have been adopted, which can be regarded as a recognized industry standard.

RPM package Manager

English original meaning: Redhat Package Manager

English interpretation: RPM package manager

Note: a packaging and installation tool for downloading packages from the Internet, included in some Linux distributions. It generates files with the .RPM extension. Similar to Dpkg.

RPM files are the easiest to install on Linux systems. Take the famous image processing software XV as an example, its RPM package xv-3.10a-13.i386.rpm can be downloaded from the home page of the program.

Some related operations apply commands

In Terminal, the basic installation instructions are as follows:

Rpm-I xv-3.10a-13.i386.rpm

If you are fast enough to connect to the Internet, you can also install the application directly from the network, just add the appropriate URL path to the file name of the software.

As a software package management tool, RPM manages the information of all RPM program components installed in the system. We can also use RPM to uninstall related applications.

Rpm-e xv

Other common parameters of RPM include:

-vh: show the installation progress;-U: upgrade the package;-qpl: list the file information in the RPM package;-qpi: list the description of the RPM package;-qf: find the RPM package to which the specified file belongs;-Va: verify all RPM packages and find missing files -qa: look for the relevant files, such as rpm-qa mysql. After reading the above, do you have any further understanding of what rpm means in linux? If you want to know more knowledge or related content, please follow the industry information channel, thank you for your support.

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