In the following example, the slack rpm file is downloaded from the official download package using the following ‘wget’ command: $ wget If you are using this method then, download the rpm package from a website. Just launch the terminal window on your CentOS desktop from left sidebar menu and then do the following steps: Download the rpm file from the official website Using this package manager tool, the user can install, download, update, search and remove packages from the CentOS official repository and can do the same task with the third-party repository. Yum is used as a default package manager for CentOS distribution. Method 1: Install rpm package using the Yum package manager

Install rpm package using the rpm command.

Install rpm package using the yum package manager.

The rpm packages can install on CentOS 8 system by using the following two different ways: You need root privileges to execute the administrative commands. We will elaborate in this tutorial on how to install rpm packages on CentOS 8 system through the command line. Often, you need to download and manually the rpm packages from the official software pages. The RPM packages that are not available in the CentOS Standard repository can be installed easily by activating or enabling the relevant repository. In the official CentOS repository, a large number of packages are available that can be installed directly using the yum package manager tool. RPM is a packaging format used by most popular Linux distributions such as CentOS, Red hat, and Fedora.

Yum install rpm file