What Does RPM stand for with reference to Linux third party softwware

HI Wlug, I am currently installing Fedora and would like to know what "rpm" stands for with reference to third party software. Cheers Robert

revisions per minute? month? hehe Gible On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Robert D Davidson <robert(a)datamatrix.co.nz>wrote:
HI Wlug,
I am currently installing Fedora and would like to know what "rpm" stands for with reference to third party software.
Cheers
Robert
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I am currently installing Fedora and would like to know what "rpm" stands for with reference to third party software.
RPM = Package manager, originally developed by Redhat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
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