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Using RPM

Introduction

RPM stands for Red Hat Package Manager. It uses a RPM database to maintain a listing of all software installed using RPM including the last version installed. There are RPM switches to install, erase, update, and query the software database. Refer to the man pages of RPM for further information. There are too many switches to discuss there. Below are the most commonly used. RPM software packages can be recognized by their extension .rpm.

Using RPM

List of commonly used RPM commands
rpm -ivh package-1.0.3.i386.rpm Install RPM Package
rpm -e package-1.0.3.i386.rpm Uninstall RPM Package
rpm -Uvh package-1.0.3.i386.rpm Update RPM Package
rpm -Fvh package-1.0.3.i386.rpm Freshen RPM Package
rpm -rebuilddb Rebuild RPM Database

Legend for some of the examples above:

-v verbose
-vv very verbose
-h display hash marks

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