Fedora Linux

5.1. Querying the Package Management Database The RPM package management database is an essential source of information about your system. The database is created when the system is insta...

5.2. Installing and Removing Software Using RPM In addition to queries, rpm performs package installation, updating, and removal. As well as copying files to the correct loc...

5.3. Using Repositories RPM is a great package manager, but to really use packages efficiently, you'll need to use RPM along with a repository system so that your Fedora system can access remote librar...

5.4. Rolling Back a Package Installation, Upgrade, or Removal RPM has the ability to save datafiles before erasing them, permitting installations, updates, and removals to be undone ...

5.5. Automating Updates One of the main reasons that packages are updated is to correct newly discovered security vulnerabilities. It's important to keep a system up-to-date so that these security vuln...

5.6. Installing From Source Although there are thousands of packages available in RPM format ready to be installed on a Fedora system, there is a lot of open source software...

5.7. Making Your Own RPM Packages While it's fairly easy to install software from source, it's not much more work to build an RPM package, especially if the original source code is well-written and in ...