The Red Hat Documentation Team - Official Red Hat Linux User's Guide

RPM is an extremely complex utility with many options and methods for querying, installing, upgrading, and removing packages. Refer to the following resources to learn more about RPM.

Installed Documentation

See the following documentation on your Red Hat Linux system for more information about RPM:

• rpm --help — This command displays a quick reference of RPM parameters.

• man rpm — The RPM man page will give you more detail about RPM parameters than the rpm --help command.

Useful Websites

See the following websites for more information about RPM:

• http://www.rpm.org/ — The RPM website.

• http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/rpm-list/ — The RPM mailing list is archived here. To subscribe to the mailing list, send mail to rpm-list-request@redhat.com with the word subscribe in the subject line.

Related Books

See Maximum RPM by Ed Bailey (Red Hat Press) for more information about RPM. An online version of the book is available at the following URL:

http://www.rpm.org/ and http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/