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