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How To use Yum

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
  • Installing applications
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:

Tom said...

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.

DevOps said...

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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