Editing RPM Package Management (section)

== yum ==
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/yum_(software)
* https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/how-manage-packages
* https://access.redhat.com/articles/yum-cheat-sheet (not searchable, because it contains a PNG)
* https://access.redhat.com/node/1284753/40/0/5827093 – yum command cheat sheet (searchable)
* https://access.redhat.com/sites/default/files/attachments/rh_yum_cheatsheet_1214_jcs_print-1.pdf (searchable)
* https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/yum.8.html

YUM allows for automatic updates and package and dependency management on RPM-based distributions.
YUM works with software repositories (collections of packages), which can be accessed locally or over a network connection.

* ...
<pre>
$ yum makecache
</pre>

* which package provides this file?
<pre>
$ yum provides /path/to/your/file
</pre>

* which repo provides this package?
<pre>
$ yum list available | fgrep PACKAGE
</pre>

* which repo is this this package installed from?
<pre>
$ yum list installed | fgrep PACKAGE
</pre>

* …
<pre>
$ yum remove PACKAGE
</pre>

* not only remove …, but also remove dependencies!
<pre>
$ yum -y autoremove PACKAGE
</pre>

* you can display the list of packages available for installation in a specific repo REPO:
<pre>
$ yum repo-pkgs REPO list
</pre>