3. RPM Packages

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By convention, RPMs are named as follows:

name-version-release.arch.rpm

Name and version are the name and version of the software. Release is the release number of the package (sometimes there are many releases of a package of the same version of software). Arch denotes the specific architecture the package was built on. For example, i386 denotes Intel based machines, axp denotes Digital Alpha based machines.


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