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SAMS Teach Yourself Red Hat® Fedora™ 4 Linux® All in One
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SAMS Teach Yourself Red Hat® Fedora™ 4 Linux® All in One

by Aron Hsiao
July 2005
Beginner
720 pages
18h 15m
English
Sams
Content preview from SAMS Teach Yourself Red Hat® Fedora™ 4 Linux® All in One

Keeping Fedora Core 4 Updated from the Command Line

For users who require a command-line tool for Fedora Core updates (for example, users running a Linux server system who did not install the desktop components of Fedora), there is another software tool that can be used to keep Fedora Core 4 up to date.

The yum command can be used to update a Fedora Core 4 system or install additional Fedora Core 4 software from the command line. Officially, yum is short for Yellowdog Updater Modified, though it may be easier to remember it as being short for Your Update Manager.

Updating Fedora Core 4 Using yum

It's surprisingly easy to update a Fedora Core 4 system using yum. In most cases, simply supply the update argument to the yum command from a command ...

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