rpmorg

rpm.org is the official website and project hub for the RPM Package Manager, a free and open-source packaging system used by many Linux distributions to build, install, update, verify, and remove software. The RPM project provides the RPM package format and a suite of tooling that handles the lifecycle of software packages, including creation, installation, querying, and verification. The format supports metadata about dependencies, file contents, scripts, and cryptographic signatures to enable automated and secure software management across different systems.

The project originated in the Red Hat ecosystem during the late 1990s to establish a standard packaging mechanism for Linux. Since then, RPM has become a widely adopted backbone for numerous distributions, with core components such as the rpm tool and rpmbuild, along with related libraries and documentation resources. RPM-based systems typically use a combination of low-level RPM utilities and higher-level front-ends that resolve dependencies and provide user-friendly interfaces.

rpm.org serves as the central resource for the project’s development and community. It offers downloads of the RPM tooling, official documentation, and access to community resources such as mailing lists and issue trackers. Development is collaborative, involving contributors from various organizations and individuals who maintain and extend the packaging standard.

In practice, RPM-based distributions include Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and open-source derivatives such as CentOS, among others. The ecosystem also interacts with complementary tooling and front-ends that streamline package management while relying on the core RPM format for package representation and operations.