What is the difference between .rpm and .bz2?
- Extension
- .rpm
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Red Hat
- Julian Seward
- Description
- The RPM file format, associated with the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM), is a package management system primarily used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its derivatives like Fedora and CentOS. An RPM file is essentially a container for software or data that allows for easy installation, upgrading, and removal of software on a Linux system. It encapsulates compiled software, metadata about the package such as its version, architecture, and dependencies, and configuration files necessary for the software to run correctly.
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- MIME Type
- application/x-redhat-package-manager
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .rpm on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia