Linux System Administration
Software Management with RPM
The RPM systems consists of a local database, the
rpm
executable, and
rpm
package files.
The local RPM database is kept in
/var/lib/rpm
.
RPM packages have the following format:
name-version-release.architecture.rpm
The name is the name of the package.......
The version refers to the open source version of the project.
The release refers to Red Hat internal patches to the open source code.
The architecture refers to the the architectures supported by Red Hat:
i386, i486, i586, i686
: Intel x86 Compatible
x86_64
: AMD 64-bit
ppc64
: Power PC 64-bit
s390x
: IBM Mainframe 64-bit
noarch : architecture independent code (scripts, documentation, images, etc.)
src : Source code and files required to build the binary RPM.
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