What is the difference between .rpm and .lha?
- Extension
- .rpm
- .lha
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Red Hat
- Haruyasu Yoshizaki
- 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.
- The LHA (also known as LHARC) file type is a compressed archive format developed by Haruyasu Yoshizaki. It primarily uses the LZSS algorithm and Huffman coding for compression, enabling the efficient packaging of multiple files and directories into a single, smaller file. Initially designed for use in the DOS operating system, LHA became popular in Japan and was widely adopted for software distribution on platforms such as Amiga and early versions of Windows.
- MIME Type
- application/x-redhat-package-manager
- application/lha
- Wikipedia
- .rpm on Wikipedia
- .lha on Wikipedia