RPM stands for “RedHat Package Manager” and is a sophisticated archiving format, allowing not only to pack a set of files and directories in a single archive, but also to install them in an easy-to-manage manner. While a Tape Archive (.tar) or a ZIP archive, with which you may be familiar with, simply packs files [...]
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Creating a package from software can be an intimidating experience. Under some circumstances it has to be because the goal of the packaging task is to automate the building, installing, and uninstalling of your software for users who have no interest in becoming familiar with compilers, build tools, or shell debugging; things that you can [...]
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