Difference between pages "Package" and "Install"

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A [[package]] typically is a bundle of files that together allow you to perform a task.
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Most importantly, [[rpm]] and [[deb]] [[package]]s allow you to [[install software]], including its libraries, documentation and config files.
 
 
 
= rpm packages =
 
Let's have a look at a small rpm package file, distcc-server-3.1-1.i386.rpm. It is available from the internet and installs a distributed C compiler environment. The name consists of several parts:
 
* distcc-server: the name of the package
 
* 3.1-1: 3.1 is the version, -1 means this is the first version of the packager.
 
* i386: This package is for the i386 processor family. "noarch" would mean it is not architecture dependant.
 
Let's look what files are in this package:
 
# rpm -qpl distcc-server-3.1-1.i386.rpm
 
/etc/default
 
/etc/default/distcc
 
/etc/distcc
 
/etc/distcc/clients.allow
 
/etc/distcc/commands.allow.sh
 
/etc/init.d/distcc
 
/etc/logrotate.d
 
/etc/logrotate.d/distcc
 
/etc/xinetd.d
 
/etc/xinetd.d/distcc
 
/usr/bin/distccd
 
/usr/share/man/man1/distccd.1.gz
 

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