{"id":545,"date":"2015-08-26T19:36:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T19:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.armourinfosec.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2017-01-18T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T04:20:25","slug":"what-is-rpm-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armourinfosec.com\/what-is-rpm-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"What is RPM Packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armourinfosec.com\/linux\/what-is-rpm-packages\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armourinfosec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RPM-Packages.png\" alt=\"What is RPM Packages\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.armourinfosec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RPM-Packages.png 450w, https:\/\/www.armourinfosec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RPM-Packages-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>RPM Packages<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RPM stands for Red Hat Package Manager. RPM is a powerful Package Manager for Red Hat, Suse and Fedora Linux. It can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and remove\/erase individual software packages. A Package consists of an archive of files, and package information, including name, version, and description.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Files end in the .rpm extension<\/li>\n<li>RPM files are the preferred Linux installation files according to the LSB (Linux Standard Base)<\/li>\n<li>Two different types of RPM files:\n<ul>\n<li>RPM &#8211; contains the compiled code<\/li>\n<li>SRPM &#8211; contains the source code for a particular application<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>RPM package names are constructed like this:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">name-version-release.architecture.rpm<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">openssh-5.3p1-52.el6_1.2.x86_64.rpm<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Architecture comes in three types:\n<ul>\n<li>I386 for 32 bit system<\/li>\n<li>x86_64 for 64 bit systems<\/li>\n<li>noarch &#8211; platform independent software<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>RPM packages contain the following items:\n<ul>\n<li>SPEC file &#8211; A file that ends in the .spec file extension, contains the information necessary to create the RPM package<\/li>\n<li>The application or libraries that are to be installed<\/li>\n<li>Any documentation (such as man pages ) that come with the package<\/li>\n<li>Any configuration files that come with the application<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Package installation is stored in the RPM database. RPM database is located at: -\/var\/lib\/rpm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>RPM Commands<\/h4>\n<p>list of all installed packages<\/p>\n<p># rpm -qa<\/p>\n<p>list of all recently installed packages<\/p>\n<p># rpm -qa &#8211;last<\/p>\n<p>Query a particular Package<\/p>\n<p># rpm -qa packagename<\/p>\n<p>Information about Package<\/p>\n<p># rpm -qi packagename<\/p>\n<p>Documentation files of Package<\/p>\n<p># rpm -qd packagename<\/p>\n<p>Dependencies a rpm file has<\/p>\n<p># rpm -qR packagename<\/p>\n<p>list of configuration file for a Package<\/p>\n<p># rpm -qc packagename<\/p>\n<p>list of all the Files in a Package<\/p>\n<p># rpm -qpl packagename.rpm<\/p>\n<p>To Install the package<\/p>\n<p># rpm -ivh packagename.rpm<\/p>\n<p>To Upgrade package<\/p>\n<p># rpm -Uvh packagename.rpm<\/p>\n<p>Forcefully install package<\/p>\n<p># rpm -ivh &#8211;nodeps packagename.rpm<\/p>\n<p>Uninstall package<\/p>\n<p># rpm -e packagename<\/p>\n<p>Forcefully uninstall package<\/p>\n<p># rpm -e &#8211;nodeps package<\/p>\n<p>Erase\/remove\/ an installed package<\/p>\n<p># rpm -ev package<\/p>\n<p>Erase\/remove\/ an installed packagewithout checking for dependencies<\/p>\n<p># rpm -ev &#8211;nodeps package<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RPM Packages RPM stands for Red Hat Package Manager. 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