![]() You may need to create a GitHub account to access it. Go ahead and download it from GitHub using the link below. GitHub user zinovyev posted a Ruby script a while back that extracts the contents of an RPM file and prepares them to be installed for Arch Linux. WPS Office is available natively in Arch, but I’d prefer to use this older version which I can’t find online. In my case, I have an old 2016 RPM of WPS Office from back when I used Fedora, and I want to install it on my 2021 Arch installation. Or you can just double click on the RPM file and it will allow you to install the same. From the menu, select ACTIONS, and then INSTALL WITH YAST. If you’re certain that you have an application that is exclusively distributed in an RPM format, then proceed with this tutorial. First, browse to where the RPM is located. Pro tip: If you’re new to Arch and you’ve found this article because a package doesn’t exist in the Arch repositories, check out the Arch User Repository (AUR), chances are the package you want to install will be there I have an RPM package that isn’t available in the AR or AUR Arch uses Pacman as its package manager, so playing around with different types of packages meant for other distros can cause incompatibility issues. It’s generally not a great idea to install RPM packages on Arch, especially if the application you intend to install already has a release native to Arch. ![]() ![]() RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) is a package manager for Linux used by distros developed by Red Hat (RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, etc.)
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