RPM (software)

RPM is an acronym which stands for Red Hat Package Manger. It most commonly refers to the package format used by Red Hat's Package Manager software, whose package files use the extension ".rpm".

An "RPM", in this context, is the "install" file for a piece of software. An RPM contains software which should be installable on any system running Red Hat Linux or any Linux distro derived from Red Hat, although there may be version conflicts on some systems (especially with older distro versions or forks).