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Summary

  • Red Hat Subscription Management provides tools to entitle machines to product subscriptions, get updates to software packages, and track information about support contracts and subscriptions that the systems use.

  • Software is provided as RPM packages, to install, upgrade, and uninstall software on the system.

  • The rpm command can query a local database to provide information about the contents of installed packages and to install downloaded package files.

  • The dnf utility is a powerful command-line tool to install, update, remove, and query software packages.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses Application Streams to provide a single repository to host multiple versions of an application's packages and its dependencies.

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