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Introduction
- RPM Package Manager* (*RPM*) is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system. The name RPM variously refers to the {{.rpm}} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format, files in this format, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software packaged in such files, and the package manager itself. RPM was intended primarily for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_distributions; the file format is the baseline package format of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base.
For a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_administrator performing software installation and maintenance, the use of package management rather than manual building has advantages such as simplicity, consistency and the ability for these processes to be automated and non-interactive.