On
CentOS 5, Oracle Unbreakable 5 and Red Hat RHEL 5 you can use yum & yumex to install and update RPM packages on your system
yum check update
check what updates are available
yum update
actually install those updates
# yum update [ <pkgname> ]
yum list
yum list installed
yum list extras
yum list recent
yum provides or whatprovides
find out what package provides a particular file
# yum provides <filename>
or
# yum whatprovides <filename>
yum search
more detailed stuff than list
# yum search "*<pkgname>*"
yum clean
yum package versions releases architectures
when you install update list or remove a package you can optionally specify its version, release and architecture
name
name.arch
name-ver
name-ver-rel
name-ver-rel.arch
name-epoch:ver-rel.arch
epoch:name-ver-rel.arch
note "yum list" lists the name ver rel arch in a different order to this
# yum remove kernel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL
yumex
GUI interface to Yum (similar to Synaptic)
YumGroups
YumEx
REFERRERS
AdminGuide
UpdateCentos
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