Andrew McDonough

Please note: This page is imported from my wiki, which hasn't been updated in over 10 years. Some of the formatting was lost during the import. I'll try to get around to fixing it someday.

yum - update manager

yum (Yellowdog Update, Modified) is a package updater for Linux, based on rpm. It is a rewrite of yup and is an alternative to apt-get, (Yellowdog UPdate)

  • Update all packages: yum update

  • Install a package yum install packagename yum install packagename.x86_64

  • Remove a package: yum remove packagename

  • List Packages yum list ”package”

Settind up third party repositories

Download repository definitions to /etc/yum.depos.d/

e.g. /etc/yum.depos.d/ wget http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/atrpms.repo wget http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/freshrpms.repo

Andrew McDonough

Andrew McDonough is a consultant CTO and software developer, currently based between Berlin and London.

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