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Yellowdog Updater Modified (yum) is an interactive, rpm based, package manager.

yum is an interactive, rpm based, package manager. It can automatically perform system updates, including dependency analysis and obsolete processing based on "repository" metadata. It can also perform installation of new packages, removal of old packages and perform queries on the installed and/or available packages among many other commands/services (see below). yum is similar to other high level package managers like apt-get and smart.

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How can I instruct yum to install a specific version of package X?

If there are two (or more) versions of a given RPM available in a YUM repository, how can I instruct yum to install the version I want? Looking through the Koji build service I notice that there are several versions.     
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In CentOS, what is the difference between yum update and yum upgrade?

What is the difference between yum update and yum upgrade, and when should I use one over the other?
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What is yum equivalent of 'apt-get update'?

Debian's apt-get update fetches and updates the package index. Because I'm used to this way of doing things, I was surprised to find that yum update does all that and upgrades the system. This made me curious of how to update the package index…
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How do I force yum to install without prompting the user, using bash?

I'm writing a bash script to install php5.4 and I'd like to automate this for a test VM. The rpm command I have is: rpm -Uvh http://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el5/latest.rpm yum install php54w Now, in the middle of this running, there is a user prompt…
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Yum: How can I view variables like $releasever, $basearch & $YUM0?

I am setting up a yum repository, and need to debug some of the URLs in the yum.conf file. I need to know why is Scientific Linux trying to grab this URL, when I was expecting it to grab another URL: # yum install package…
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How to install dig on CentOS?

I can't find the dig command on my new CentOS installation. I've tried dnf install dig but it say that it cannot find the package. How do I install dig on CentOS?
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Nslookup: command not found error on RHEL/CentOS 7

During linux installation I selected "minimal" option: When I went to run the nslookup command to look up an IP address I got the error message nslookup: command not found as shown in the example below. $ nslookup www.google.com bash: nslookup:…
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How can I tell whether a package is installed via yum in a bash script?

I am trying to write a script that installs packages, but if it fails at any point later in the script rolls back whatever it installed. Of course if the user has already previously installed a package I don't want to uninstall it out from under…
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List all RPM packages installed from repo "X"

How can I get a list of all of the RPM packages that have been installed on my system from a particular repo (e.g., "epel")?
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Remove unused packages

I have installed some rpm package on my Fedora 17. Some packages had a lot of dependencies. I have removed some packages but I forgot remove unused dependencies with yum remove. How can I do that now?
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Listing packages in Yum that depend on another installed package

I am trying to install a 3rd-party RPM package on RHEL5 which depends on version 3.4 of sqlite. According to Yum I already have 3.3.6 installed. Is there a way to list the installed packages that depend on sqlite 3.3.6?
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yum install in user home for non-admins

I am a non-admin user on a large computer system. I need some up to date packages that are not installed on the system. I want to use yum to install them. As a user without sudo, admin, or root access, can I use package management to install…
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Yum Check Available Package Updates

Red Hat docs say: To see which installed packages on your system have updates available, use the following command: yum check-update What command must I run to view all available versions for a package installed on my system? Example: yum…
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yum Error:rpmdb open failed

I'm trying to run yum update and I'm running this error: rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db3 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using…
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Non-Root Package Managers

From my research, I seem to notice that all package managers insist on being used as a privileged user and must be installed into /. Typically, what I like to do is create a throwaway account, compile some software, and install to $HOME for that…
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