How To Manage Yum Repositories
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This document discusses how to manage yum repositories on Linux systems. It describes how yum is used to automatically install packages and dependencies. It then provides commands to list enabled and disabled yum repositories, and to install packages from a specific repository.
How To Manage Yum Repositories
- 1. How To Manage Yum Repositories i | P a g e Table of Contents Overview.......................................................................................................................................................1 Applies To......................................................................................................................................................1 Yum Options..................................................................................................................................................1 Managing Yum Repositories .........................................................................................................................1 List Enabled Yum Repositories..................................................................................................................1 List Disabled Yum Repositories.................................................................................................................1 List Enabled and Disabled Yum Repositories............................................................................................2 Install Package from Specific Repository ..................................................................................................2
- 2. How To Manage Yum Repositories 1 | P a g e Overview The purpose of this guide is to know the usage of YUM (Yellowdog updater modified). It is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm system(s). One of the main features, it automatically identifies dependencies and ensures as to what packages needs to be installed to complete requested package installation. You can also utilize yum to install a group of packages, one of such group is “Development Tools”. Yum has a plugin interface for adding simple features. Yum can also be used python programs via its module interface. yum clean, cache option will help in managing the disk space at regular intervals on the system. Applies To Linux flavor where yum is installed Tested on CentOS 7, RHEL 7 Yum Options Yum command has different options for performing different type of package administration, some of major commands are discussed here.
- 3. How To Manage Yum Repositories 1 | P a g e Managing Yum Repositories Repositories are sources location wherein yum lookup’s when you query, install, list, remove package(s). List Enabled Yum Repositories To list enabled yum repositories, run the command; yum repolist enabled List Disabled Yum Repositories To list disabled yum repositories, run the command; yum repolist disabled
- 4. How To Manage Yum Repositories 2 | P a g e List Enabled and Disabled Yum Repositories To list all, irrespective of whether its enabled or disabled repositories, run the command; yum repolist all Install Package from Specific Repository To install package from a specific repository, run the command; yum --enablerepo=epel install clamav -y yum list installed | grep -e 'clamav'