Hi, I believe yum is more powerful than you think and you will like it in the end. I will try to give some examples: become root (or you can configure your system to use sudo to run commands with root power)
*yum update* (to search for packages that need updating, you will be asked whether to apply the updates or not) *yum -y update* (to search for packages that need updating and install the updates) *yum localinstall* (to install an rpm package that you already have on your box, it may ask for its key) *yum localinstall --nogpgcheck* (to install the rpm package you have without checking for its key) *yum search installed* (name_of_package) (without brackets, to search for a package that's installed on your system) *yum search available* (name_of_package) (without brackets, to search for a package in the available repository, not installed) *yum provides* (command) (no brackets, to search for a package that would provide this command) *yum provides */bin/(command)* (no brackets, if the above does not work :) ) You can type, yum --help (or yum with a wrong argument!) to get a list of all available arguments and commands! I hope this helps ~hatim On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Frank Lanitz <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the answer. > > Am 19.10.2010 16:35, schrieb Pablo Cavero: > > > > The "yum" command have the options of install, erase and update any > > package including all dependencies. > > If you want to have more options, like search the more quickly mirror > > and another details, you need install the yum tools, > > I'm aware of this and it appears that yum is doing a good job ;) > > > and for use in the graphical environment, you can use the yum-ex, to > > find and install or remove a lot of .rpm in a single step, with all > > dependencies. > > Well, I'm looking for some tool like this but with a command line > interface. > > Thanks, > Frank >
