What is the difference between .rpm and .tar?
- Extension
- .rpm
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- Red Hat
- Jean-loup Gailly
- 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.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-redhat-package-manager
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .rpm on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia