Examples:
- To seach for a application: Yum will search all your enabled repos and tell you where you can obtain the package from
yum search application_name
- Yum can list all available packages from your enabled repos and tell you where you can obtain the package from:
yum list available
- To find out more info about some package
yum info application_name
yum install application_name
- Listing rpms : yum can list installed rpms for you from the repos you have enabled
yum list extras
- Removing rpms: Yum can remove a application and the dependenciesit installed with tat application. it will not remove depenencies if another application installed needs them.
yum remove application_name
- Updating the system: Yum can update the system for you with out user interact if you want it to.
yum update
- Not sure if you have upates?
yum check-update
- Local install: downloaded a rpm and cannot install it with rpm because of dependencies?
yum localinstall /path/to/the/rpm
2 comments:
If the command line really scares people that much, a good one is
yum install yumex
Yumex is a graphical front-end to Yum that you launch from the GNOME menu. It makes searching for a certain kind of package a bit more intuitive, too.
Yes, yumex is cool UI tool but, many time I observed that it does crash or gets freeze in between so, I always prefer to use Command line for all such sensitive operations.
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