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  • penquin@lemmy.kde.social
    42·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
      15·
      1 year ago

      It is a package manager, as well as a packaging format. dnf/yum is the frontend for RPM. You can also use rpm as a command utility.

        • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
          4·
          1 year ago

          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.

        • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          1 year ago

          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”