How to open a .RPM file online
No extra software to download or install.
Pick your .RPM file
Drag it in or click to choose it. We read its contents list first, so it opens right away without unpacking everything.
Browse what's inside
See every file with its size, how much it's compressed and its date, and search by name across all the folders.
Preview or download
Click a file to preview text or images, or save just that one. Need everything? Download it all as a single ZIP.
About .RPM files
What a .RPM file is, and what's inside it.
An .rpm file is a software package for RPM-based Linux distributions such as Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, and openSUSE. Install it with `sudo dnf install ./file.rpm` (Fedora/RHEL) or `sudo zypper install ./file.rpm` (openSUSE). On Windows, 7-Zip can open the file to inspect its contents, but cannot install it.
Programs that open .RPM files
| Full name | RPM Package Manager File |
|---|---|
| Developer | Red Hat (now community/RPM.org; originally Red Hat Package Manager) |
| First released | 1997 (RPM, with Red Hat Linux 5.0; rpm-software-management is the current upstream) |
| Category | Archives |
| MIME type | application/x-rpm |
| Signature | ED AB EE DB "\xED\xAB\xEE\xDB" - RPM lead magic (the "edabeedb" signature) |
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Do I have to unpack the whole .RPM file?
No. The viewer reads its table of contents first and only unpacks a file when you click it. That works even with multi-gigabyte archives, because we read just the bytes we need.
Can I open password-protected archives?
Yes, for ZIP (ZipCrypto and AES) and 7Z. You'll be asked for the password,. We can't recover forgotten passwords.
Is my .RPM file uploaded anywhere?
No. The code that unpacks the file is downloaded once and then reused.
Why does a .docx or .apk open as an archive?
Because they are ZIP archives under the hood. Office documents, Android apps, Java programs and EPUB books all use ZIP as their container.
What about split archives (.001, .z01, .part1.rar)?
Multi-part archives need all their parts. Today you can open the first part to see the file list; joining parts is on our roadmap.
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