Free Software Server Environment: YellowDog Update Manager

Yum∞

YellowDog Update Manager

On CentOS 5, Oracle Unbreakable 5 and Red Hat RHEL 5 you can use yum & yumex to install and update RPM packages on your system

Install Package(s)

# yum install yumex

Update Package(s)

# yum update "[abc]*"

List Package(s)

# yum list "[abc]*"

Info or Search Package(s)

# yum info "[abc]*"

Provides

what package provide <file>

# yum provides <file>

Clean

delete cached file from /var/cache/yum (you could recover 300M of space)

# yum clean all

Configuration and Repositories

/etc/yum.conf
/etc/yum.repos.d

# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

# Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 5 - dag
# URL: http://rpmforge.net/
[rpmforge]
name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
#baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
enabled = 1
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1

# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge

http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag
http://archive.cs.uu.nl/mirror/dag.wieers/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag
http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/dag/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag
http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/dag/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag
http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/pub/dag/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag
http://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag

REFERRERS
SystemServices

Free Software Server Environment : Yum