A Practical Guide to Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®

13. Finding, Downloading, and Installing Software

In This Chapter

JumpStart: Installing and Removing Packages Using yum 534

Finding the Package That Holds an Application or File You Need 537

yum: Keeps the System Up-to-Date 538

yum Commands 540

yum.conf: Configures yum 542

BitTorrent 545

RPM: The RPM Package Manager 547

Keeping Software Up-to-Date 553

wget: Downloads Files Noninteractively 555

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• Explain the purpose of a software package, a package management system, and a software repository

• List the uses and benefits of yum

• Use yum to list installed and available packages

• Use yum to search for packages containing specific applications or utilities

• Use yum to install and ...