What is the difference between .rpm and .zip?
- Extension
- .rpm
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Red Hat
- Phil Katz
- 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.
- A ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-redhat-package-manager
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .rpm on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia