How to Open, Edit, and Convert RPM Files
A file with the RPM file extension is a Red Hat Package Manager file that’s used to store setup packages on Linux operating systems.
RPM files supply a simple method for software to be dispersed, set up, upgraded, and eliminated considering that the files are “packaged” in one location.
Totally unassociated to what Linux uses them for, RPM files are also used as RealPlayer Plug-in files by the RealPlayer software to add additional features to the program.
Note: The RPM acronym means remote print manager, too, however also might have nothing at all to do with computer system files, like when referring to the frequency rotation measurement revolutions per minute.
How to Open an RPM File
It’s crucial to recognize that RPM files can not be used on Windows computer systems like they can on the Linux os. However, since they’re simply archives, any popular compression/decompression program, like 7-Zip or PeaZip, can open an RPM file to expose the files inside.
Linux users can open RPM files with the package management system called RPM Package Manager. Use this command, where “file.rpm” is the name of the RPM file you wish to set up:
rpm -i file.rpm
In the previous command, “- i” indicates to install the RPM file, so you can change it with “- U” to perform an upgrade. The command below will install the RPM file and remove any previous variations of the exact same bundle:
rpm -U file.rpm
Check Out RPM.org and Linux Foundation for a lot more details on using the rpm command.
If your RPM file is a RealPlayer Plug-in file, the RealPlayer program need to be able to use it, but you probably can’t open the RPM file from within the program itself. To put it simply, if RealPlayer needs an RPM file, it will probably grab it from its installation folder given that there isn’t menu item in the program that can import RPM files.
Note: RMP files are spelled nearly identical to RPM files, and they so take place to be RealPlayer Metadata Package files, which means you can open both RPM and RMP files in RealPlayer.
Tip: If you find that an application on your PC does attempt to open the RPM file however it’s the incorrect application or if you would rather have another set up program open RPM files, see our How to Change the Default Program for a Specific File Extension guide for making that change in Windows.
How to Convert an RPM File
Commands that invoke the Linux Alien software can be used to convert RPM to DEB. The following commands will set up Alien and after that use it to convert the file to a DEB file:
apt-get install alien alien -d file.rpm
You can change “-d” with “-i” to transform the bundle and then right away start the install.
AnyToISO is able to convert RPM to the ISO format.
If you want to convert RPM to TAR, TBZ, ZIP, BZ2, 7Z, or some other archive format, you can use FileZigZag. You have to upload the RPM file to that site prior to you’re able to have it transformed, which indicates you then need to download the converted file back to your computer system before you can use it.
To convert RPM to MP3, MP4, or some other non-archive format like that, your best choice is to just manually extract the files from the RPM. You can do that with a decompression program like we mentioned above. Then, when you’ve taken the MP3 (or whatever file) out of the RPM file, just use a complimentary file converter on those files.
Note: Even though it has absolutely nothing to do with the file extensions discussed on this page, you can also convert revolutions per minute into other measurements like hertz and radians per second.
Still Can’t Open Your File?
At this moment, if your file doesn’t open even after following the actions above or installing a suitable RPM file opener, then there’s a good chance that you’re not really handling an RPM file. The most likely case is that you’ve misread the file extension.
There are great deals of files that share similar file extension letters as RPM files however are in fact not related to Red Hat or RealPlayer. An RPP file is one example, which is a REAPER Project plain text file used by the REAPER program.
RRM is a comparable suffix used for RAM Meta files. Similar to RPP, the two look a lot like they say RPM, however they’re not the exact same and therefore do not open with the same programs. Nevertheless, in this particular instance, an RMM file might in fact open with RealPlayer since it’s a Real Audio Media (RAM) file– however it doesn’t work with Linux like RPM files do.
If you don’t have an RPM file, use Google or Lifewire to research the file’s real extension to get more information about the programs that can be used to open or transform it.
Nevertheless, if you do certainly have an RPM file that you can’t appear to open, see Get More Help for information about contacting me on social media networks or via email, posting on tech support forums, and more. Let me know what sort of issues you’re having with opening or utilizing the RPM file and I’ll see what I can do to help.
