RPM is distributed under the terms of the GPL.Įven though it was created for use in Red Hat Linux, RPM is now used in many GNU/Linux distributions.
RPM was intended primarily for Linux distributions the file format is the baseline package format of the Linux Standard Base. rpm file format, files in this format, software packaged in such files, and the package manager itself. Nnow, RPM is a package management system.
RPM originally stands for Red Hat Package Manager.
