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RPM Package Manager: RPM package security scanning with Snyk
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RPM is used in many Linux distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, CentOS, and others. It originated in Red Hat Linux, and originally stood for RedHat Package Manager, although it’s now a recursive …
RPM is used in many Linux distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, CentOS, and others. It originated in Red Hat Linux, and originally stood for RedHat Package Manager, although it’s now a recursive acronym that stands for RPM Package Manager. RPM can refer both to the package manager, and to the rpm file format which it uses to distribute applications.