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NAME="INTRO">1. Introduction</H1
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> RPM is the <EM
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>PM <EM
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>ackage
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>anager. It is an open packaging system available
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for anyone to use. It allows users to take source code for new software
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and package it into source and binary form such that binaries can be
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easily installed and tracked and source can be rebuilt easily. It also
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maintains a database of all packages and their files that can be used
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for verifying packages and querying for information about files and/or
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> Red Hat, Inc. encourages other distribution vendors to take the time
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to look at RPM and use it for their own distributions. RPM is quite
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flexible and easy to use, though it provides the base for a very
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extensive system. It is also completely open and available, though we
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would appreciate bug reports and fixes. Permission is granted to use
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and distribute RPM royalty free under the GPL.
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> More complete documentation is available on RPM in the book by Ed Bailey,
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<EM
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>Maximum RPM</EM
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