
(maintained for legacy reasons only - use repoquery or yum provides)

While there are some graphical interfaces directly to the yum code, more recent graphical interface development is happening with PackageKit and the gnome-packagekit application. yum is similar to other high level package managers like apt-get and smart. It can also perform installation of new packages, removal of old packages and perform queries on the installed and/or available packages among many other commands/services (see below). It can automatically perform system updates, including dependency analysis and obsolete processing based on "repository" metadata. Yum is an interactive, rpm based, package manager. Upgrade installed packages to the newest available versions: yum upgrade.Display available updates for installed packages: yum check-update.Find the package that provides a particular command: yum provides command.

Install a new package and assume yes to all questions (also works with update, great for automated updates): yum -y install package.Install a new package: yum install package.Yellowdog Updater Modified Examples (TL DR)
