What is a .RPM file?
RPM is a Red Hat or Fedora software package. Installed with rpm or dnf.
- Did you know
- RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) dates from 1995 and is used across Red Hat-family Linux.
- An RPM is built from four parts - a fixed lead, a signature, a metadata header and a payload that is usually a gzip-compressed cpio archive.
- RPM was written in 1995 by Erik Troan and Marc Ewing of Red Hat, drawing on earlier packaging experiments named pms, rpp and pm.
- What Analyser reads
- Read software packages and Unix archive streams: Python wheels, NuGet, Chrome/Firefox/VS Code extensions, Electron ASAR, Windows APPX/MSIX, Debian (DEB), RPM, RubyGems, conda, Anki, Microsoft CAB, cpio, Unix ar and Microsoft COFF libraries (.lib - telling a static library apart from a DLL import library, with the target architecture and the DLLs it binds to) - showing name, version, dependencies and the file tree.
- Depth of analysis
- .RPM is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .RPM file
- Drag a .RPM file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.