{"id":254,"date":"2020-06-11T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/?p=254"},"modified":"2024-02-02T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T22:29:56","slug":"yum-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/yum-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"yum tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>yum stands for &#8216;Yellowdog Updater Modified&#8217;. YellowDog Linux is a rpm based distribution of Linux created for the ppc architecture. Fedora Core took up this package manager as of Fedora Core 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaving history aside, yum is the easiest way to install, update, and remove software from your Linux systems. This quick tutorial guides you through the steps but it is not a substitute for man yum. This tutorial would give you general usage while man page give a comprehensive documentation of yum&#8217;s functionality. An added benefit of yum is that it calculates a programs dependencies and then it downloads and installs them for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Installing yum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Before installing yum, check to see if you already have yum installed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ whereis yum<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have yum installed, you can download it from&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/yum.baseurl.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/yum.baseurl.org<\/a>. To install yum,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ rpm -Uvh yum-xx.noarch.rpm<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is a software already installed on my system<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ yum list install SOFTWARE\n$ yum list install firefox<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>replace the word software with your software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Installing with yum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ yum install SOFTWARE\n$ yum install firefox<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>replace the word software with your software. This will get all the dependencies and prompt you with a list of dependencies you need to download and install. You can accept or decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Search for software<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ yum search STRING\n$ yum search firefox\n$ yum search fire*<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>where string could be software&#8217;s name, or a wildcard. Yum would return a list of matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Uninstalling software<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ yum remove PACKAGE\n$ yum remove firefox<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Updating software<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ yum update PACKAGE\n$ yum update firefox<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yum stands for &#8216;Yellowdog Updater Modified&#8217;. YellowDog Linux is a rpm based distribution of Linux created for the ppc architecture. Fedora Core took up this package manager as of Fedora Core 1. Leaving history aside, yum is the easiest way to install, update, and remove software from your Linux systems. This quick tutorial guides you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}