Anyone who is familiar with just about any Linux distribution has had to install software at some point or another. If it’s a process you’re not familiar with, what’s the first thing you do? You turn to Google of course (or Scour). Inevitably you have come across an article instruction you to install the software with the RPM command, while another one tells you how to do it with the YUM command. The question then comes up:

What’s the difference between installing software using RPM vs. YUM?

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