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YUM vs RPM in Linux

YUM vs RPM in Linux

Posted by | May 16, 2011 | |

Q:I am a Solaris guy I am new to Linux can u please add the difference in installing packages through (( rpm and yum)) .. i am bit confused about these YUM(Yellow dog updater and modifier) is latest model/application in installing RPM packages on Redhat based machines. This YUM comes in to existence due to drawbacks of RPM package management. So whats the drawbacks of this RPM package management and what are the advantage of YUM Sl No. RPM YUM 1 If we want to install an application(Ex: apache), rpm need to install all the packages required for this...

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Install and configure YUM server in RHEL4

Install and configure YUM server in RHEL4

Posted by | Aug 5, 2009 | |

If you are looking for YUM server in RHEL5(Redhat Enterprise Linux version 5) you can click here other wise just read on.. Recently I came across a strange requirement.. i.e. implementing YUM(Yellow dog Updater and Modifier) server in RHEL4 :(. By the time of RHEL4 release there is no YUM server implementation.. so I did some research and collected some documentation on net and implemented YUM server in RHEL4 configuring YUM server in RHEL4 as follows.. Stpe 1:Download following packages(these days the below packages are not present on net, so please download bleow RPM packages for Yum installation in...

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Configure and Install YUM Server In Redhat(RHEL5/6)

Configure and Install YUM Server In Redhat(RHEL5/6)

Posted by | May 22, 2008 | |

In Linux you can install packages through many ways like. 1. Through RPM, 2. Through shell script 3. Through source tar balls etc. YUM(Yellow-dog Updater and Modifier) is another and advanced way of installing the packages in Linux distro's such as Red-hat, Fedora and CenOS. In RHEL4 installing packages is a tedious process, some times it’s headache to install all the dependencies. So Red-hat come with a solution to overcome this dependencies problem in most situations, the solution for this is nothing but YUM implementation. This will resolve this dependency issue and other known issues. Here we are going...

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