One of the most important and useful feature added to YUM Package Manager (from version 3.2.25) is the ‘yum history’ command. It allows you to review a full history of yum transactions that have...
Normally, removing a package using YUM package management system will remove that package together with its dependencies. However, certain dependencies will not be removed on the system, these are what we can term as...
YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified) is an open source, widely used command-line and graphical based package management tool for RPM (RedHat Package Manager) based Linux systems, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux...
A software repository (“repo” in short) is a central file storage location to keep and maintain software packages, from which users can retrieve packages and install on their computers. Repositories are often stored on...
Usually, when you install a package in CentOS and Ubuntu, the package management software selects the latest package version from the repository, by default. However, sometimes, for one reason or the other, you may...
Installing updates for software packages or the kernel itself, is a highly recommended and beneficial task for system administrators; more especially when it comes to security updates or patches. While security vulnerabilities are discovered,...
On CentOS/RHEL, you can either install packages individually or install multiple packages in a single operation in a group. Package group contain packages that perform related tasks such as development tools, web server (for...
