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 [...]
We will explain the options that can be added to the rpm command (Redhat Package Manager) in order to query packages in Linux. The following elements of the article will be explained: How to query the whole RPM database? How [...]
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”. [...]
