Introduction and application of RPM

RPM is the abbreviation for Red Hat Package manager, which is intended to be the Red Hat package management, as the name suggests is the package management contributed by Red Hat, and in mainstream releases such as Fedora, Redhat, Mandriva, SuSE, Yellowdog, etc. , as well as two developed distributions on the basis of these editions;

What is included in the RPM package? that contains the executable binary program, This program is similar to the. exe file in the Windows package, and the RPM package also includes files that are required for the program to run, and similar to Windows packages, Windows programs run with other files besides the. exe file;

An application in an RPM package that sometimes requires other specific versions of files in addition to their own attached files, which is the dependency of the software package; the dependencies are not Linux-specific, as are the Windows operating systems. For example, we run 3D games in Windows, and when installed, he may be prompted to install direct 9; Linux and Windows are the same;

Software Installation Flowchart:

This article uses the scope:

1, this article is the RPM management software description, the use of file.tar.gz or file.tar.bz2 source code package make, make install installed software is invalid;

2. When installing software, it is best to use the System software package management tools provided by the respective distributions, for Fedora/redhat you can refer to the following articles;

1 Fedora System Management software package tool system-config-packages, easy to add and remove the system installation tray provided by the package, please see "Fedora Package Manager System-config-packages"

2 Redhat System Management software Package tool, the new point of the system should be redhat-config-packages, usage and "Fedora Package Manager System-config-packages";

3) Apt + synaptic software package online installation, removal, upgrade tools; Usage: Install or upgrade Fedora Core 4.0 packages online with apt+synaptic

4 Yum Package online installation, upgrade, removal tool; Usage: Fedora/redhat Online installation update package, yum Chapter

5 all Yum and apt tutorials "apt and yum"

At present, APT and Yum have been extremely mature, it is recommended that we install the software, using apt or yum; if the package provided by the installation system disk can be used system-config-packages or redhat-config-packages;