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yum

YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified) is the traditional high-level package manager for RPM-based distributions. It simplifies package management through automatic dependency resolution and repository management.

CentOS RHEL Fedora

Verified: 2025-09-09

Syntax

$yum [OPTIONEN] BEFEHL [PAKETE]

Examples

$yum install paketname

$yum update

$yum remove paketname

Typical use cases

Standard usage

yum --help

Note Standard package manager in CentOS 7 and earlier. Replaced by dnf in newer versions. Use <code>yum list installed</code> for installed packages. See also dnf in Fedora/CentOS 8+, zypper in SUSE.

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