RPM (short for Red Hat Package Manager) is an open source package management utility developed by Red Hat for RPM-based systems such as RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora. Using the RPM utility, the user can install, remove, update, query, and verify application packages built in the .rpm format. You can download .rpm packages from repositories containing application packages in .rpm format.
An RPM package may or may not require any resource prerequisites. If a rpm package requires any resource, such as a shared library or another package to be available on system before proceeding ahead with that rpm package installation, then those resources are known as dependencies of that package. A package management utility such as YUM automatically resolves the dependencies when a package is installed, while the RPM utility lacks this feature. Using the RPM utility...