O kaluteros tropos na apokthsete to RPM einai na sthsete to Red Hat Linux. An de 8elete na to kanete ayto, mporeite kai pali na parete kai na xrhsimopoihsete to RPM. 8a to breite sto ftp.redhat.com.
H kuria apaithsh gia na trejete to RPM einai na exete to cpio 2.4.2 h megalutero. An kai to susthma proorizetai gia xrhsh me Linux, mporei na metafer8ei kai se alla systhmata Unix. Sygkekrimena, exei metaglwttistei gia SunOS, Solaris, AIX, Irix, AmigaOS kai alla. Sas proeidopoioume oti ta dyadika-ektelesima paketa poy dhmioyrgeite se ena susthma Unix de 8a einai symbata se allo susthma.
Aytes einai oi elaxistes apaithseis gia na egkatasthsete RPMs. Gia na
xtisete RPMs apo ton kwdika, xreiazeste oti 8a 8elate kanonika gia na xtisete
ena paketo, opws ta gcc, make, klp.