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RPM Package Manager

The low-level package format and tool used by Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE and related Linux distributions.

Definition

rpm installs, queries, verifies and removes .rpm packages but does not resolve dependencies from repositories; that is done by DNF or zypper. Useful queries include rpm -qa (all), rpm -qf (which package owns a file) and rpm -V (verify).

Example

rpm -qf /etc/ssh/sshd_config reports that the file belongs to openssh-server.

Exam tip

rpm does not resolve dependencies; dnf does.

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