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Which package management tool is used in Red Hat-based Linux Systems?

The correct answer is B. rpm. Red Hat-based Linux systems use RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) as their native package management tool.

The Linux Operating System

Question

Which package management tool is used in Red Hat-based Linux Systems?

Options

  • Aportage
  • Brpm
  • Capt-get
  • Ddpkg
  • Epackagectl

How the community answered

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  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    88% (30)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    6% (2)

Why each option

Red Hat-based Linux systems use RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) as their native package management tool.

Aportage

Portage is the source-based package management system used exclusively by Gentoo Linux.

BrpmCorrect

RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) is the native package format and management tool for Red Hat-based distributions including RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, and derivatives. It handles installation, querying, verification, and removal of .rpm packages. Higher-level tools like yum and dnf also rely on RPM as their underlying package backend.

Capt-get

apt-get is the package management tool used by Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu and Debian itself.

Ddpkg

dpkg is the low-level package tool for Debian-based systems and handles .deb packages, not .rpm packages.

Epackagectl

packagectl is not a real or recognized Linux package management tool.

Concept tested: Red Hat package management with RPM

Source: https://rpm.org/documentation.html

Topics

#package management#RPM#Red Hat#yum

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