Redhat/CentOS Package Management

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Managing Software with yum

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YUM

# man yum

NAME
yum – Yellowdog Updater Modified

SYNOPSIS
yum [options] [command] [package ...]

DESCRIPTION
yum is an interactive, automated update program which can be used for maintaining systems using rpm

command is one of:
* install package1 [package2] [...]
* update [package1] [package2] [...]
* check-update
* upgrade [package1] [package2] [...]
* remove | erase package1 [package2] [...]
* list [...]
* info [...]
* provides | whatprovides feature1 [feature2] [...]
* clean [ packages | headers | metadata | cache | dbcache | all ]
* makecache
* groupinstall group1 [group2] [...]
* groupupdate group1 [group2] [...]
* grouplist [hidden]
* groupremove group1 [group2] [...]
* groupinfo group1 [...]
* search string1 [string2] [...]
* shell [filename]
* resolvedep dep1 [dep2] [...]
* localinstall rpmfile1 [rpmfile2] [...]
* localupdate rpmfile1 [rpmfile2] [...]
* deplist package1 [package2] [...]
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RPM

# man rpm

# rpm -i pkg.rpm

# rpm -e pkg_name

# rpm -qa

# rpm -ql pkg_name

# rpm -qf file_name_full_path