RPM packages are now more secure, as packagers can include digital signatures encrypted
with GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). All packages produced by openSUSE Linux are signed,
so you know they are genuine.
NOTE
Interested in packaging your own software with RPM? See Chapter 28, ???Programming
Tools.???
Downloading RPM Packages Outside of YaST
openSUSE Linux is known for including the largest number of application packages of the
major Linux distributions, but it doesn??™t include every application ever created. Because
Linux developers come up with new ideas all the time, there??™s always something new to
try as well.
You can download and install just about any RPM package from any source and run it on
your openSUSE Linux system. It??™s possible that new packages may have some ill effect on
your system??™s stability, but that??™s rare, especially with RPMs.
When you visit a software repository like freshmeat.net, you can see dozens of new and
updated applications posted daily. Many developers build RPMs for their applications to
make things relatively easy for users to install.
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