yum

Often use when people want to use install or update software using the command line in LINUX. For this you use a program called "yum".

First become root, and then you can use the following commands:

* To see a list of available software:

yum list available

* To install some software, you type:

yum install packagename

* To update some software, you type:

yum update packagename

If you leave out "packagename" yum will update all your software.

* To see what updates are available, you can do:

yum check-update

* To search for a package, you can do:

yum search word

For more info about yum, see the yum project page, http://yum.baseurl.org/.

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