FsseInfo: YellowDog Update Manager

Yum
http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Using
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge

YellowDog Update Manager

On CentOS 4&5, Oracle Unbreakable 4&5 and Red Hat 4&5 you can use yum & yumex to install and update CentOS, OEL and RHEL RPM packages on your system as well as third party RPMs from RPMForge

Install Package(s)

# yum install yumex

Update Package(s)

# yum update "[abc]*"

List Package(s)

# yum list "[abc]*"

Info or Search Package(s)

# yum info "[abc]*"

Provides

what package provide <file>

# yum provides <file>

Clean

delete cached file from /var/cache/yum (you could recover 300M of space)

# yum clean all

Configuration and Repositories

Add the RPMForge repository

# rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

# wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

# yum local-install rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

useful yum config files

/etc/yum.conf
/etc/yum.repos.d

# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo 

# Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 5 - dag
# URL: http://rpmforge.net/
[rpmforge]
name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
#baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
enabled = 1
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1

# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge 

http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag
http://archive.cs.uu.nl/mirror/dag.wieers/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag
http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/dag/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag
http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/dag/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag
http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/pub/dag/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag
http://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$ARCH/dag

REFERRERS
SystemServices

FsseInfo : Yum