yum.md

Download, Install, Update, manage software packages

Objectives :-

• Configuring yum locally
• installing software packages with yum
• updating packages with yum
• Enabling and disabling software repositories

Cofiguring yum

cofiguring yum using config-manager command

[root@localhost ~]# yum config-manager --add-repo (repo url or repo path)

we can configure repositories with dnf command also.

[root@localhost ~]# dnf config-manager --add-repo (repo path or url)

Installing and removing software packages with yum.

yum install PackagesName obtains and install software packages.

[root@localhost ~]# yum install nmap (installs software called nmap)

yum remove PackagesName removes software packages.

[root@localhost ~]# yum remove nmap (removes software called nmap)

Updating package with yum

yum update PackageName updates specific software

[root@localhost ~]# yum update httpd (here httpd is package name)

Enabling and disabling software repositories

yum config-manager command used to enable or disable repos.

yum config-manager --enable (repo url or name) enables repository

First checkout which repo need to enable run following command

[root@localhost ~]# yum repolist all

[root@localhost ~]# yum config-manager --enable epel-testing-source

yum config-manager --disable (repo url or name) disable repository

[root@localhost ~]# yum config-manager --disable epel-testing-source