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Monday November 21, 2005

09:14:22 pm - Linux, Nerdish - Comments (4)

While this could be a post about the impending deliciousness of Thanksgiving, based on the title, its not. Instead allow me to nerd out for a second and speak about the great utility that is Yum, aka Yellowdog Updater, Modified.

Here was my dilemma: my base Linux install was lacking Emacs and since I hate vi, this had to be remedied. Instead of finding the source, downloading, and compiling or even finding a Fedora RPM, I merely had to type:

yum install emacs

This is only a basic example of Yum’s greatness. Yum is also quite useful to keep your currently installed apps up to date:

yum update [package]

If you leave off the [package], Yum’ll update all your installed components. I’m sure that there are tons of other uses for Yum that I am unaware of, so if you’re running Linux, man yum for all the details. There are other similar utilities, like up2date, but I think I’ll be sticking with Yum.

Comments

  1. Tommy
    Monday, November 21, 2005 09:59:09 pm

    Yep, very nerdy….

  2. bobafred
    Monday, November 21, 2005 10:34:06 pm

    Sometimes it happens.

  3. Coche
    Friday, November 25, 2005 08:51:50 pm

    Nice use of “Yum’ll”

  4. bobafred
    Saturday, November 26, 2005 12:07:21 am

    I like how you use a different fake email address every time you leave a comment.

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