July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 5: Package Management
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wildcard in file-glob syntax format, and Perl or Python regular
expressions can be used.
remove
remove package1 [package2 ...]
erase package1 [package2 ...]
Remove the specified packages from the system. Also remove any
packages that depend on the specified packages.
search
search string1 [string2 ...]
Find packages matching the specified string or strings in the
description, summary, packager, or package name fields. Perl or
Python regular expressions can be used for the strings. Useful for
finding a package if you don’t know the name.
update
update [packages]
With no packages specified, update all installed packages. Other-
wise, update the specified packages. In either case, yum makes sure
that all dependencies are satisfied. If no package matches, the
names specified are assumed to be shell globs, and any matches are
installed.
With the --obsoletes option, yum includes package obsoletes in its
calculations.
upgrade
upgrade [packages]
Equivalent to update --obsoletes.
up2date: Red Hat Update Agent
The Red Hat Update Agent, up2date, installs and updates packages on RPM-
based systems, primarily on Red Hat and Fedora Core Linux systems. Originally,
up2date was intended for use with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Red Hat
Network, but it has since been updated
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