What is an RPM package?

RPM is short for Red Hat Package Manager. It is intended to manage Red Hat software packages. As its name suggests, RPM is a software Package management tool contributed by Red Hat; mainstream Release versions such as Fedora, Redhat, Mandriva, SuSE, and YellowDog, as well as the release versions developed on the basis of these versions;

What are included in the RPM package? There are other files besides the hosts file;

The application in an RPM package sometimes requires files of other specific versions in addition to the additional files it carries to ensure its normality. This is the dependency of the software package; the dependency is not exclusive to Linux, and exists in the Windows operating system. For example, if we run 3D games in Windows, a prompt may be prompted during installation, to install Direct 9; Linux and Windows are similar;

CentOS is a Redhat recompilation version, so it is fully compatible with CentOS. wdOS is a simplified version of CentOS and fully compatible.

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