The Yellow Dog Updater, Modified (yum for short) acts as a package manager for RPM-compatible Linux computer systems. Its principal advantages over the RPM version of apt are its smaller codebase and better dependency handling. Its main flaw is its lack of standard GUIs, although some efforts, such as those by Cobind, have attempted to address this issue. A package management system is a collection of tools to automate the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing software packages from a computer. ... The RPM Logo RPM Package Manager (or RPM, originally called Red Hat Package Manager) is a package management system primarily intended for Linux. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ... A computer system consists of a set of hardware and software which processes data in a meaningful way. ... Advanced Packaging Tool, or APT, is a package management system used by Debian and its derivatives. ... Codebase is a term used in software development to refer to the aggregate of all source code used to build a particular application or component. ... In computer science, dependency or coupling is the degree to which each program module relies on each other module. ... Jump to: navigation, search A graphical user interface (or GUI, sometimes pronounced gooey) is a method of interacting with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text. ... Categories: Stub ...

Yum serves as the standard tool for updating the Fedora Core distribution of Linux, and the up2date utility can use yum repositories to update software. Jump to: navigation, search Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat. ... Jump to: navigation, search A Linux distribution is a Unix-like operating system comprising most of the GNU operating system plus the Linux kernel, other assorted free, open source, and possibly proprietary software. ... Up2date - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... A repository is a central place where data is stored and maintained. ...

Yum uses a configuration file, typically located at /etc/yum.conf. This tells yum, among other things, the server to download packages from. Downloading and installing a program takes place by typing yum install [program name], and system administrators can check for potential updates to their systems with the command: yum check-update. The term system administrator (abbreviation: sysadmin) designates a job position of engineers involved in computer systems. ...

Yum may also use a repomd file for its repository metadata. Metadata (Greek: meta-+ Latin: data information), literally data about data, is information that describes another set of data. ...

See also:

• Yellow Dog Linux

Yellow Dog Linux, an open source Linux distribution for the PowerPC processor architecture, was first released in 1999 by Terra Soft Solutions, a Colorado-based software company. ...

External links

• yum website
• Information on using yum with Fedora Core
• Fedora Legacy Project documentation - provides instructions to install Yum and get updates for previous Fedora Core and late Red Hat Linux releases

yum GUI front-ends

• Yum Extender - Fedora Core GUI for Yum
• KYum - GUI for Yum on KDE
• Cobind Software Manager (YUMGUI) - old GUI for Yum
  • GYUM - old YUMGUI clone