Yum

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Yum (Yellow dog Updater Modified) is an RPM manager that provides facilities for downloading, installing and upgrading programs.

In a terminal

# yum check-update

will tell you what updates are available and applicable to your system. You could create a simple cron job of your own to email that to you, or you could modify /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron to do it (that is what the yum rc.d script enables), or you could install yum-applet (see http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-applet/ ) for a gui desktop indicator.

Other commonly used Yum commands are update, install and clean. To update all existing packages on your system enter:

$ yum update

To install a package foo:

$ yum install foo

To remove a package foo:

$ yum remove foo

Note that foo can be a regular expression. To remove any old cached packages and headers from your system.

$ yum clean all

See the yum man page for more information.

TroubleShooting

Proxy

You get an error message like:

Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates

ToDo: Check your internet connection. If you need a proxy, set it with

export http_proxy=http://proxy:8080
export ftp_proxy=http://proxy:8080

See also