The fact that you have seen that error means that you were trying to install, update, remove, verify, query or do some other operation on a package. An RPM Package consists of an archive of files and metadata including information such as dependencies and install location. The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a free and open-source package management system used by Red Hat Linux and its derivatives such as CentOS and Fedora. Read the next section for how to configure your OS to use RPM. To fix this error, you need to configure your system to use the RPM Package Manager (RPM).

If you tried using ‘rpm’ in the second most popular shell, zsh, you would see the following error message instead: zsh: command not found: rpm Let me guess: you typed some rpm command into bourne again shell, and you ran into the following error: -bourne again shell: rpm: command not found bourne again shell: rpm: command not found First let’s get down to the basics so we are on the same page.

If you have ever run into this message when you’re trying to install some package, there are some steps you could follow in order to diagnose the issue properly.

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