Package Administration

ankittrivedi9 · 10-10-2011, 09:00 AM

What is the major difference between rpm and up2date?

acid_kewpie · 10-10-2011, 09:37 AM

well firstly up2date is VERY obsolete. you don't use it anymore, it's superseded by yum.

rpm is a package file type, and a command to directly install rpm packages. up2date was a tool that wrapped the rpm database / toolset to manage the installation of multiple packages based on various additional data, like security announcements from RedHat etc.

a please / thank you would be nice next time.

ankittrivedi9 · 09-05-2012, 02:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

well firstly up2date is VERY obsolete. you don't use it anymore, it's superseded by yum.

rpm is a package file type, and a command to directly install rpm packages. up2date was a tool that wrapped the rpm database / toolset to manage the installation of multiple packages based on various additional data, like security announcements from RedHat etc.

a please / thank you would be nice next time.

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Thank you so much . Sorry for being late for this response.Since I am so much novice on Linux .After gradual usage of yum & rpm , I got to knew their differences.

deadeyes · 09-05-2012, 07:56 AM

Note that in RHEL4 up2date is the way to go.