RPM:Documentation

From Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts

Notes on RPM, the package management system used in Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS and other similarly flavored distributions of GNU/Linux.

• RPM:Philosophy -- Originally written by VAGUE member Sam Hooker.
• RPM:Tricks -- Unorganized list of suggestions to manage your packages.

Here are some good sources of information on building packages with RPM. Unfortunately, RPM is free software, but the documentation below is not free as in free software.

• RPM HOWTO -- short and quick documentation hosted at RPM.org
• Maximum RPM -- book by Ed Bailey
• RPM Tutorial
• Packaging software with RPM -- part of IBM Developer Works
• RPM Tips -- Another quick start document.
• RPM Guide -- Most recent book.
• Managing Software with YUM -- Yum automatically downloads, installs and determines dependencies of RPM packages.