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YUM cheat sheet

Published: March 27, 2017 | Modified: June 19, 2020 | 2,522 views



All YUM related articles in one place! Helpful YUM cheat sheet to learn, understand, revise YUM related sysadmin tasks on a single page.

YUM cheat sheet

YUM is Yellow dog Updater Modified. Its a package management tool for RPM-based systems. It has below a list of features that make it must use for every sysadmin.

  1. Simple install, uninstall, upgrade operations for packages
  2. Automatic resolves software dependency while installing or upgrading
  3. Looks for more than one source for software (supports multiple repositories)
  4. Supports CLI and GUI
  5. Automatically detects architecture of the system and search for best-fit software version
  6. Works well with remote (network connectivity) and local (without network connectivity) repositories.

In this article, I am gathering all YUM related posts in one place so that you don’t have to search them through our site!

Package Operations

  1. How to install package
  2. How to upgrade package
  3. How to remove package

Configurations

  1. YUM server configuration
  2. YUM config basics
  3. Package naming conventions
  4. Configure internet proxy for YUM

Services

  1. Automatic scheduled package updates 
  2. Download only packages without installing

Miscellaneous

  1. How to check if package is installed
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