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RPM project

www.rpm.org

RPM documentation

Maximum RPM (.ps format): www.rpm.org/local/maximum-rpm.ps.gz

RPM HOWTO

www.rpm.org/support/RPM-HOWTOl

RPM mailing lists

RPM.org mailing list: www.rpm.org/mailing_list/

Usenet newsgroup:

linux.redhat.rpm

RPM documentation in Fedora

/usr/share/doc/rpm^-*

Man pages: rpm, rpm2cpio, rpmbuild, rpmcache, rpmgraph, gendiff, and rpmdeps

RPM configuration and log files

/etc/rpm directory

Files that set the locations for RPM components. Generally there's no need to touch these files.

/var/lib/rpm

Location of the database of RPM packages that are currently installed.

/usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux

Location of the database of total RPM packages that are available on the full Fedora or Red Hat Linux distribution (when installed).

/var/log/rpmpkgs

List of all RPM packages on the current system.

rpm

Basic command for adding, removing, upgrading, and querying RPM packages.

redhat-config-packages

Launches the GUI tool to add and remove software packages.

rpm2cpio

Converts an RPM package into a cpio archive file.