A framework within itself - for use by 3rd party installers.msi files are utilized by the Windows Installer and offer additional features such as: rpm files but likely even more sophisticated. dependencies, both formats can include names or packages and/or service names that they require to be present on a system, prior to installation.

run commands as root on the system that's installing the package.

set ownership/permissions on the files after installation.

creating/modifying configuration files that aren't actually contained in the.

These tasks would include things such as: zip files, in that they can include a specification that contains rules that tell the package manager software running on a system that's installing one of these files to do additional tasks. These files have one other special trait that sets them apart from. rpm files are used primarily by distributions that derive from Redhat based distros (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL) as well as by the openSuSE distro.

deb files are meant for distributions of Linux that derive from Debian (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.). They're a directory tree of files and sub-directories that contain files related to a particular application and/or library of files.

Install deb file