Good ole xda site. Haven’t messed with it for a long, long time. It is a good writeup, I enjoyed reading it, but why does the writer list RPM as a package manager? Isn’t it a package format, or am I crazy?
You can’t swap rpm with dnf. I haven’t used rpm that much, with the exception of using it to install and uninstall .rpm format files, but I think that it’s functionality is limited to only installing locally available packages. Maybe dnf handles all the downloads, package transaction, conflict resolution and other stuff which I’m probably not aware of.
dnf is the right way for an end user to manage packages in modern versions, as it brings lots of extra functionality and an easier command interface - but yes the command rpm -i is able to install and upgrade packages. RPM’s name is a recursive acronym “RPM Package Manager”
Good ole xda site. Haven’t messed with it for a long, long time. It is a good writeup, I enjoyed reading it, but why does the writer list RPM as a package manager? Isn’t it a package format, or am I crazy?
It is a package manager, as well as a packaging format.
dnf/yumis the frontend for RPM. You can also userpmas a command utility.So, I can use sudo rpm install… instead of sudo dnf/yum install…?
You can’t swap
rpmwithdnf. I haven’t usedrpmthat much, with the exception of using it to install and uninstall.rpmformat files, but I think that it’s functionality is limited to only installing locally available packages. Maybe dnf handles all the downloads, package transaction, conflict resolution and other stuff which I’m probably not aware of.dnf is the right way for an end user to manage packages in modern versions, as it brings lots of extra functionality and an easier command interface - but yes the command rpm -i is able to install and upgrade packages. RPM’s name is a recursive acronym “RPM Package Manager”
Well, I’ll be damned then. I’ve learned something new today.
@CaptDust @penquin when i started using it 25 years ago it stood for Red Hat Package Manager.
Not a Fedora user, but I’m pretty sure that
rpmis for Fedora likedpkgis for Debian. AIW?