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Objective

• Discuss the DPKG packaging system and its uses
• Explain the naming conventions used for both binary and source deb files
• Know what source package look like
• Use querying and verifying operations on packages
• Install, upgrade and uninstall Debian packages

DPKG Essentials

Objectives

• Understand how the RPM system is organized and which operations it can accomplish
• Explain the naming conventions used for both binary and source rpm files
• Know how to query, verify, install, uninstall, upgrade and freshen packages
• Grasp why new kernels should be installed rather than upgraded
• Know how to use rpm2cpio to copy packaged files into a cpio archive, as well as to extract the files without installing them

RPM

Red Hat Package Management.

rpm files are distribution-dependent