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| '''Yum'' is a package manager used to manage RPM packages. It's used in pretty much all Linux distros based around the [[RPM]] package format, and is especially notable for being used in Red Hat distributions as well as in [[Fedora]].
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| It also fucking sucks. Go figure.
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| == Name ==
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| ''Yum'' means ''Yellowdog updater, modified''. There used to be a ''yup'' tool, which stood for ''yellowdog updater''. Yum is a complete rewrite of yup.
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| == Usage ==
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| [[File:yuminstall.png|thumb|Example output of the yum install command]]
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| Like most package managers, yum is quite simple to use. It requires root privileges in order to install and remove packages.
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| === Installing packages ===
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| To install a package, issue:
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| <pre># yum install <package></pre>
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| === Uninstalling packages ===
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| To remove a package from the system, issue:
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| <pre># yum remove <package></pre>
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| === Updates ===
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| Yum supports updating individual packages or the entire system at once.
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| ==== Full system update ====
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| To update all the packages on the system, issue:
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| <pre># yum update</pre>
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| Sometimes, yum will fail to resolve dependencies for various reasons. You can use the <code>--skip-broken</code> option to skip packages whose dependencies could not be resolved:
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| <pre># yum update --skip-broken</pre>
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| ==== Individual package update ====
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| To update an individual package, simply pass its name as the argument:
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| <pre># yum update <package></pre>
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| === Searching for packages ===
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| You can search the remote repository for a package:
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| <pre># yum search <string></pre>
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| [[Category:GNU/Linux]]
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