Application Installation using RPM Utility

RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) is an default open source and most popular package management utility for Red Hat based systems like (RHEL, CentOS and Fedora).

The tool allows system administrators and users to install, update, uninstall, query, verify and manage system software packages in Unix/Linux operating systems.

This utility only works with packages that built on .rpm format.

Install an RPM Package

For installing an rpm software package, use the following command with -i option.

#rpm –ivh PackageName

RPM command and options

-i: install a package

-v: verbose for a nicer display

-h: print hash marks as the package archive is unpacked.

For example, to install an rpm package called pidgin-2.7.9-5.el6.2.i686.rpm

Remove a RPM Package.

To un-install an RPM package,  use -e (erase) option.

#rpm -e PackageName

for package name nx-3.5.0-2.el6.centos.i686.rpm.

[root@Packages] rpm -e nx-3.5.0-2.el6.centos.i686.rpm