RPM for Newbies
I was in doubt about writing this article. There are several tutorials covering this topic but I want to try to write a simple article that shows the basis of rpm usage. So this is not an advanced tutorial but a document for the impatient and the people that performs simple operations with rpm.
RPM, the history
RPM is an acronym for Red Hat Package Manger. As the name said, it was developed by Red Hat, but nowadays it is used by many other distributions. In fact, RPM is part of the Linux Standard Base, an attempt of standardization in the Linux world. RPM can run under several platforms like AmigaOS, BeOS, Solaris and others.
There are other package managers. Debian uses .deb packages and Gentoo uses the portage, a clone of the FreeBSD ports collection. The last one is especially efficient when installing software from source code. And the .pbi attempt from the PC-BSD project is another interesting approach specially to solve the problem with dependencies.
It is possible that RPM is not the best package manager in the world (I hope nobody from Red Hat is reading this...) but it can be as efficient and easy as some of the above.
Why should you use RPM?
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