CentOS package management - NathanStMarie/tech-journal GitHub Wiki

  • This page is about CentOS default package management - Yum
  • Yum stands for Yellow Dog Updater, Modified
  • It's the package used to install and update other packages.
  • Example usage -- check for updates: sudo yum check-update
  • Or, to update: sudo yum update
  • To install a package: yum install [package]
  • To search for packages in the known repositories: yum list [package]