CentOS Quick Start Guide

Handling other miscellaneous options of yum

The YUM utility also provides an interactive shell using the yum shell command for performing multiple tasks in one go. To exit from the YUM shell, type exit or quit, or press Ctrl + D. The example in the following screenshot illustrates the usage of the yum shell command:

YUM keeps all the enabled repositories' cached packages and other data in the /var/cache/yum directory. Here, YUM creates a subdirectory for each repository. We can clean or empty the cached directory to save space at any time by executing the following command:

$ yum clean all

We can display the usage information of YUM by using ...