It stands for Red Hat Package Manager, which is a package management system that will run on Linux.
Redhat Package Manager
While RPM was originally part of the RedHat Linux distribution, RPM viewers / extractors are now available for most platforms including Windows. A search on 'RPM Viewer' or 'RPM Windows' will come up with more than a few options, such as IZArc, 7-Zip and BitZipper. Well, RPM is the RedHat Package Manager and RedHat is a distribution of Linux. To make use of .rpm packages under Windoze one would need to run some type of virtualization (for example, VMware). RedHat Linux can then be installed as a virtual system and the .rpm package can be installed within it. The .rpm package format is somewhat of a defacto standard and many different flavors of Linux can deal with it.
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yum remove -y (specific package name)
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Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide dynamic authorization for applications and services in a Linux system. Linux PAM is evolved from the Unix Pluggable Authentication Modules architecture.
LDAP data interchange format
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RPM packages are installation packages designed for Red Hat based system. They are similar to .exe files for Windows, and .deb files for debian systems.
rpm -q pkge_namethis command will query the specifid package if it is already existing,otherwise it will give message that package isnot installed.
RPM is the extraction / installation component. YUM is the downloader. If RPM is run to install a package without its dependencies already installed, it will fail. YUM's job is to download all necessary dependencies.
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