Usually, a user installs packages using the yum command line utility. The official CentOS repositories contain thousands of RPM packages, but in some cases, you may come across an RPM file that is not in any repository. Some software authors [...]
RPM(Redhat Package Manager) is a command line package management utility used for installing, uninstalling, updating, querying and verifying software packages. This article I will explain some of the most common Linux rpm commands for a system admin. Some of the [...]
The rpm commands are used rpm based distros like CentOS, Fedora, Opensuse and RHEL. Modern Linux distros use yum and DNF package manager which has more features. This tutorial explains the options that can be added to the rpm command [...]
In this tutorial, we learn how to install rpm installation into a specific directory. For that to happen, rpm package should be relocatable. If that package is not flexible enough (--prefix path can't be set) to be installed in to [...]
Kernel is the central component of an Operating System that is responsible for memory, process, and task and disk management. The first thing you need to think about updating a kernel is that “why do you need a kernel update”. [...]
