About:
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc. It also includes the RPM C library and header files. These development files will simplify the process of writing programs which manipulate RPM packages and databases and are intended to make it easier to create graphical package managers or any other tools that need an intimate knowledge of RPM packages in order to function.

Author:
Jeff Johnson <jbj (at) rpm5 (dot) org> [contact developer]

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8.36/10.00 (6 votes)

Homepage:
http://rpm5.org
Tar/GZ:
http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.1/rpm-5.1.4.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://rpm5.org/cvs/fileview?f=rpm/CHANGES&v=1.2288.2
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://rpm5.org/cvs/dir?d=rpm
Bug tracker:
http://rpm5.org/tickets.php
Mailing list archive:
http://rpm5.org/community.php

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2, OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Topic]		System :: Archiving :: Packaging

Dependencies: [change]
BeeCrypt (required)
Berkeley DB (required)
neon (required)
SQLite (required)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	5.1.4	22-Jun-2008	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Development	4.4.6	09-Apr-2006	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Red Hat Red Hat's older version of RPM.			GNU General Public License v2

 Articles referencing this project

Improving The Software Distribution and Deployment Process by Michael Free , in Editorials Sat, Feb 8th 2003 00:00 Largefile Support Problems by Guido Draheim , in Editorials Sun, Jan 26th 2003 00:00 Introducing a Third Option by David Eklund , in Editorials Sat, Jan 6th 2001 23:59

An RPM port of APT by Alfredo K. Kojima , in Editorials Sat, Dec 2nd 2000 23:59 Is it time to change RPM? by Claudio Matsuoka , in Editorials Sat, Sep 16th 2000 23:59 Security Issues of Auto-upgrades by jeff covey , in Editorials Sat, May 13th 2000 23:59

 Comments

[»] It's a shame
by Magnus - Nov 24th 2003 05:17:50

It's a shame that one of the coolest OSS tools out there is developed in such closed circles. Hopefully under the Fedora project, development will open up and new releases will be announced here. Also, I hope we get some better documentation that is kept up-to-date (no pun intended).

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[»] Newer releases seem to be available elsewhere
by skks - Feb 27th 2003 11:44:29

While the latest version show here is 4.0.4, it seems that there are newer releases 4.2 at:
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
rpm-4.2-0.68.i386.rpm

Just in case somone doesnt know!

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[»] Re: Newer releases seem to be available elsewhere
by Peter Åstrand - Jun 7th 2004 00:52:28

4.2 is available from rpm.org as well here: ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.2.x There are some problems, though:
* No tar distribution; only SRPM.
* The distribution contains 5 MiBs .o files.
* It doesn't compile on RH73.
Btw, the ChangeLog link above is outdated as well. It's a shame that this project is so badly maintained.

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