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This article mainly introduces how to use the yum command in Fedora. It is very detailed and has a certain reference value. Friends who are interested must finish it!

What is Fedora yum?

Fedora yum = Yellow dog Updater, the main function of Modified is to add / delete / update RPM packages more easily. It can automatically solve the problem of packet dependence. It is easy to manage a large number of system update problems.

Note: the simplest reason for using Fedora yum instead of apt is that Fedora comes with

Characteristics of Fedora yum

Multiple resource libraries (Repository) can be configured at the same time, concise configuration files (/ etc/Fedora yum.conf), automatically solve the dependency problems encountered when adding or deleting rpm packages, easy to use, and maintain consistency with the RPM database.

Fedora yum installation

Fedora comes with

# rpm-ivh Fedora yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm

Fedora yum configuration

Note: modify and add the repository in the configuration file to speed up downloads and have more updatable rpm packages

Replace all the contents of / etc/yum.conf with

[main]

Cachedir=/var/cache/yum

Debuglevel=2

Logfile=/var/log/yum.log

Pkgpolicy=newest

Distroverpkg=fedora-release

Tolerant=1

Exactarch=1

[fedora-us-1]

Name=Fedora Core 1-Fedora US mirror

Baseurl= ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os

[fedora-us-1-updates]

Name=Fedora Core 1 updates-Fedora US mirror

Baseurl= ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/updates

[fedora-us-1-stable]

Name=Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 1-Fedora US mirror

Baseurl= ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable

[freshrpms]

Name=Fedora Linux $releasever-$basearch-freshrpms

Baseurl= http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms

Fedora yum application

Note: when you update the Fedora yum or Fedora yum repository for * times, Fedora yum will automatically download all the required headers and place them in the / var/cache/Fedora yum directory, which may take a long time.

Check for updatable rpm packages

# Fedora yum check-update

Install the rpm package so that xmms can play mp3

# Fedora yum install xmms-mp3

Install mplayer and automatically install the relevant software

# Fedora yum install mplayer

Delete the licq package and delete the package that is dependent on the package

# Fedora yum remove licq

Note: you will be prompted to delete licq-gnome,licq-qt,licq-text at the same time, which is very convenient.

System updates (update all upgradeable rpm packages, including kernel)

# Fedora yum-y update

Perform system updates regularly every day

# chkconfig Fedora yum on

# service Fedora yum start

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