3.9. RPM management
Red Hat Packet Manager (RPM) is a standard software packaging format in SuSE and all Red Hat-based distributions.[17]
[17] For more information on building your own RPMs, see: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-rpm1/ or Maximum RPM
3.9.1. Naming convention
The RPM naming convention has the following format: name-version-release.arch.rpm. If we take screen-3.9.13-23.ppc.rpm as an example, we see the name of the software package: screen, version:3.9.13 and release:23. The last section, ppc, indicates that this RPM is build for the PowerPC plattform.
3.9.2. Querying RPM
We have two RPM querying possibilities: querying a package we have not installed yet, and querying an installed software package. Most options ...
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