Using YUM Package Management

In the previous chapter, package management was our focal point. Here, we learned about the Debian package manager. There are a number of ways to install packages inside a Debian environment. Our attention was focused on the common methods of managing packages within a Debian environment.

In this chapter, we continue our journey. This time we focus on the Red Hat approach to package management. We will begin with the very popular Yellowdog Updater, Modified, also known as YUM. Next, we turn our attention toward the dnf utility. The dnf utility acts similarly to YUM. This is followed by the rpm utility for managing packages. Finally, the yumex utility will be covered.

We will be covering the following topics in this chapter:

• yum
• dnf
• rpm
• yumex