YUM Description
One of the most common tasks a sysadmin must do is to install, patch, and remove software packages from Linux machines. Here's how to get started with Linux package administration in Linux Red Hat-based distributions. Package management is the process of installing, updating and removing software from specific repositories in Linux. Different package management tools are used by Linux distros. Red Hat-based distros often use RPM (RPM package manager) and YUM/DNF. YUM is Red Hat Enterprise Linux's primary package management tool. It allows you to install, update, remove, and manage software packages. YUM handles dependency resolution when updating, installing, and removing software packages. YUM can manage packages either from.rpm packages or installed repositories. YUM has many commands and options.
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MSYS2
MSYS2 is a collection tools and libraries that provide an easy-to use environment for building, installing, and running native Windows software. It includes a command-line terminal called mintty, bash and version control systems such as git and subversion. Tools like tar, awk, and even build systems such as autotools. All of these are based on modified Cygwin. MSYS2's core components are based on Cygwin. However, the main purpose of MSYS2 was to provide a build environment that native Windows software can use. The Cygwin-using parts of MSYS2 are kept to a minimum. MSYS2 provides the latest native builds for GCC and mingw–w64, CPython CMake, Meson OpenSSL, FFmpeg Rust, Ruby, and CMake. Pacman is a package management system that makes it easy to install packages and keeps them updated. This should be familiar to Arch Linux users.
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Pacman
Pacman is a Linux utility that manages software packages. It uses compressed files as a package format and maintains a text-based database (more like a hierarchy) in case of any hand tweaking. Pacman doesn't try to do everything. It can add, remove, upgrade, and upgrade packages in the system. You can also query the package database to find files, owners, and installed packages. It can also download packages from remote servers and attempt to manage dependencies. Pacman 2.0 introduced the ability to sync packages with a master server (the -sync option) through the use package databases. Before this, packages had to be manually installed using the --add or - upgrade operations.
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Zypper
Zypper is a command line package manager that allows you to install, update, and remove packages. It can also manage repositories. Zypper behaves and works as a regular command line tool. It supports subcommands, arguments and options that can be used for specific tasks. Zypper has many advantages over graphical package managers. Zypper is a command-line tool that is easy to use and saves you time. Zypper actions are scriptable. Zypper can also be used on systems without graphical desktop environments. This makes Zypper suitable for remote machines and servers. To execute Zypper, simply type its name followed by a command. You can also choose from one or several global options by simply typing them before the command. Some commands require multiple arguments. Executing subcommands within the Zypper shell and using global Zypper options is not supported.
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Synaptic
Synaptic is a graphical package manager program for apt. It offers the same features as apt-get's command-line utility, but with a GUI front-end built on Gtk+. You can install, remove, upgrade, and downgrade single or multiple packages. Upgrade your entire system. Manage package repositories (sources.list). You can search for packages by name, description, or other attributes. You can filter packages by section, name, status, or custom filter. Sort packages by name and version. You can search all online documentation about a package. Download the most recent changelog for a package. Lock packages to the latest version. Forcing the installation of a particular package version. Undo/Redo selections. Built-in terminal emulator to the package manager. Only for Debian/Ubuntu, configure packages using the debconf system. Only for Debian/Ubuntu, Xapain-based fast searches (thanks to Enrico Zini).
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Free
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Yes
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Red Hat
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
www.redhat.com/sysadmin/how-manage-packages
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