RPM Package Management

DNF

DNF is a rewrite of yum, DNF replaced YUM as the default package manager in Fedora 22.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNF_(software)
• https://opensource.com/article/18/8/guide-yum-dnf

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.

• which package provides this file?

$ yum provides /path/to/your/file

• which repo provides this package?

$ yum list available | fgrep PACKAGE

• which repo is this this package installed from?

$ yum list installed | fgrep PACKAGE

• …

$ yum remove PACKAGE

• not only remove …, but also remove dependencies!

$ yum -y autoremove PACKAGE

yum-utils

$ yum install yum-utils

repoquery

--plugins: enable YUM plugin support.

• list the contents of PACKAGE -- PACKAGE is possibly not (yet) installed, i.e. only lives in the repo:

$ repoquery --query --list --plugins PACKAGE

rpm

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager
• http://linux.die.net/man/8/rpm

• which package provides FILE?

$ rpm --query --file FILE

• list the contents of PACKAGE:

$ rpm --query PACKAGE
$ rpm --query --queryformat "[%{=NAME}-%{=VERSION}-%{=RELEASE}:\t%-50{FILENAMES} %10{FILESIZES}\n]" PACKAGE

• how to list package updates:

$ rpm -qa --qf '%{INSTALLTIME} %-40{NAME} %{INSTALLTIME:date}\n' | sort -n | cut -d' ' -f2-