Working with package dependencies on Red Hat Linux | Linux Today

Working with package dependencies on Red Hat Linux

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linuxconfig.org
Aug 23, 2018

RPM, which stands for Red Hat Package Manager, is a well-known and mature package manager used by all Red Hat flavor distributions, as well as SuSE. With RPM the packager can define relations between packages, and even with versions of packages – for example, an Apache Tomcat server needs proper Java environment present to be able to run.

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