RPM AND YUM PACKAGE MANAGEMENT COMMANDS

 

 

YUM & RPM : YUM stands for Yellow-dog Updater & Modifier and RPM stands for Redhat Package Manager

YUM is powerful command utility to manage, view, install or uninstall all available package available in configured repository on local site or remote site/server. We can search manage update install or get info abt all available or installed packages in the system.

 

YUM Commands

1 => Install a new package

yum install package_name

 

2 => Remove / Uninstall a package

yum remove package_name

 

3 => List all mapped and enable repositories in system

yum repolist

 

4 => List all available packages 

yum list

 

5 => List installed packages in system

yum list installed

6 => To check transactions ( installation, remove, upgrade etc) performed by YUM command utility.

yum history or yum history list all

 

7 => To display transactions in a given range 

yum history list 1..5

Above command will show only the transaction with given numbers range. 

 

Group Packages

These are group of multiple packages which can be installed in one shot with the help of yum command. There are many common packages which are used for same purposes and need to installed at same time to function properly.For example GNOME Desktop, Development Tools, Basic Web Server etc.

8 => Install group packages in Redhat / RPM base system

yum groupinstall "group_package_name"

 

9 => List all available group packages 

yum grouplist or yum groups list

RPM Package Management Commands

 

10 => Query if the package is installed or not in the system.

rpm –q package_name

 

11 =>  Check  all installed packages in the system. 

rpm -qa

 

Note : You can use pipe to modify the output e.g 'less' to show output in page break or 'wc -l' to show number of package installed in system 

 

12 => To check the dependencies of any package without installation.

rpm -ivh package_name --test 

 

where i=install, v=verbose, h=#(hashs)

Note: you have to download a rpm package in your system.

 

 

13 => To install a package without any dependency.

rpm –ivh package_name --nodeps

Note: Install package without checking dependencies , it may cause to make your application unstable. (not recommend) 

 


 14 => Get information about an installed package (e.g installation date, package version, source name etc)

rpm –qi package_name 

 

15 => To see  all the configuration files of any specific package

rpm –qc package_name

 

where c= configuration , q=query

16 => RPM command to list all the documentation files of a specific package.

rpm –qd package_name 

 

where d=documentation

 

17 => RPM command to know full package name with the help of related system binary files.

rpm –qf path_to_the_package_binary_file

18 => RPM command to see the change log, bug fixes or update feature of newer version of package

rpm –q –changelog package_name

 

Note: use pipe and grep to see a specific bug fix or vulnerability 

 

19 => RPM command to query about all the files related to any particular package.

rpm –ql package_name

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