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100 Days of DevOps — Day 54-And You Thought You Knew RPM

Prashant Lakhera
8 min readApr 6, 2019

Welcome to Day 54 of 100 Days of DevOps, Focus for today is Introduction to Regular Expression

  • Finally, I get a chance to write about this topic which I was planning to do for quite a long time. The common trend I am seeing now a days (your opinion might differ) with the growth of Cloud people are forgetting basic Linux concepts like rpm. It’s good to have knowledge about Cloud to survive in the current market but it's important we must know these basic concepts as these are the building blocks to debug any issues.
  • Tomorrow I am going to discuss YUM which you can think right now as the front-end to rpm

What is package management?

  • The main goal behind package management is to install, remove and see information regarding software package

Different Linux Distro support different Linux package

  • RedHat: rpm,yum,dnf
  • Debian: apt,dpkg

Installing software using rpm

# rpm -ivh vsftpd-3.0.2-25.el7.x86_64.rpmPreparing...                          ################################# [100%]Updating / installing...1:vsftpd-3.0.2-25.el7              ################################# [100%]
  • I → install
  • v → verbose
  • h → hash to see the progress

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Prashant Lakhera
Prashant Lakhera

Written by Prashant Lakhera

AWS Community Builder, Ex-Redhat, Author, Blogger, YouTuber, RHCA, RHCDS, RHCE, Docker Certified,4XAWS, CCNA, MCP, Certified Jenkins, Terraform Certified, 1XGCP

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