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RedHat Satellite
rhn_register
rhnplugin
Using YUM
yum checks yum repository and RHN
/etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
EPEL Additional Software Repositories http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
| yum help | Obvious |
| yum search | search package LIST by Package Name |
| yum provides | search package content for specific files |
| yum info | gives detailed Infos about Package |
| yum install | Install package with dependencies |
| yum remove | remove Package incl. supported Packages |
| yum update | updates installed packages to latest in Repository |
| yum --nogpgcheck file.rpm | Installs rpm without checking validity but resolving dependencies from Repos |
see yum.conf
Using RPM
rpm checks local packages
| Infos about versions of packages | |
| rpm -q -a | list all packages |
| rpm -q <substr> | list installed packages matching <substr> |
| rpm -q -p <rpmfile> | show packagename of <rpmfile> |
| rpm -q -f </path/to/file> | list package containing file |
| Infos about contents of packages | |
| rpm -q -i <package> | show info about <package> |
| rpm -q -l <package> | list files of <package> |
| rpm -q --configfiles <package> | list configfiles of <package> |
| rpm -q --docfiles <package> | list docsfiles of <package> |
| rpm -q --scripts <package> | list scripts of <package> |
| Install files | |
| rpm -ivh <packagefile> | installs <packagefile>.NOT recommended as this doesn't update the transaction history of yum |
