How To use Yum

• To seach for a application

Yum will search all your enabled repos and tell you where you can obtain the package from

yum search application_name

• Yum can list all available packages from your enabled repos and tell you where you can obtain the package from:

yum list available

• To find out more info about some package

yum info application_name

• Installing applications

Inastalling is as easy as

yum install application_name

• Listing rpms

yum can list installed rpms for you from the repos you have enabled

yum list extras

• Removing rpms

Yum can remove a application and the dependenciesit installed with tat application. it will not remove depenencies if another application installed needs them.

yum remove application_name

• Updating the system

Yum can update the system for you with out user interact if you want it to.

yum update

• Not sure if you have upates?

yum check-update

• Local install

downloaded a rpm and cannot install it with rpm because of dependencies?

yum localinstall /path/to/the/rpm

Enjoy

Ninad S