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Add to SafariWhen comparing RPM (RPM Package Manager) vs AppImage, the Slant community recommends RPM (RPM Package Manager) for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux package managers?” RPM (RPM Package Manager) is ranked 6th while AppImage is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose RPM (RPM Package Manager) is:
This makes maintenance and support easy.
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Pros
Pro Easy to create packages on non-rpm based distros
This makes maintenance and support easy.
Pro Follows the UNIX philosophy
It only does one thing and that well.
Pro Part of LSB
It is part of the Linux standard base.
Pro Very easy to create packages
It is very easy to create packages for it, you just need a small spec file.
Pro Standard archives
RPM packages are simple cpio archives that have additional compression support.
Pro Much more advanced than apt
Pro No integration into the system
Leaves your system untouched.
Pro Easy to use
Just execute the package to run the software.
Pro Easy deployment of software
It just works across different distros.
Cons
Con No interaction
RPM does not support user interaction upon install.
Con Many forks
Currently there exist rpmv4, rpmv5 and distribution specific forks like Mandrake's urpm.
Con Plenty of different frontends
Almost any rpm distro has its own frontend for rpm there is zypper, yum, apt-rpm, dnf, poldek and many more.
Con No wayland support
Apps look pretty bad on 4k monitors.
Con No automatic updates
You have to re-download the application to update it.
Con Big file size
