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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Essentials Book now available.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Essentials Print and eBook (PDF) editions contain 34 chapters and 298 pages

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Part I. Package Management

All software on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system is divided into RPM packages, which can be installed, upgraded, or removed. This part describes how to manage packages on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the Yum and RPM package managers and the PackageKit suite of graphical package management tools.

Table of Contents

1. Yum
1.1. Checking For and Updating Packages
1.1.1. Checking For Updates
1.1.2. Updating Packages
1.1.3. Updating Security-Related Packages
1.1.4. Preserving Configuration File Changes
1.2. Packages and Package Groups
1.2.1. Searching, Listing and Displaying Package Information
1.2.2. Installing
1.2.3. Removing
1.3. Configuring Yum and Yum Repositories
1.3.1. Setting [main] Options
1.3.2. Setting [repository] Options
1.3.3. Using Yum Variables
1.3.4. Creating a Yum Repository
1.4. Yum Plugins
1.4.1. Enabling, Configuring and Disabling Yum Plugins
1.4.2. Installing More Yum Plugins
1.4.3. Plugin Descriptions
1.5. Additional Resources
2. PackageKit
2.1. Updating Packages with Software Update
2.2. Using Add/Remove Software
2.2.1. Refreshing Software Sources (Yum Repositories)
2.2.2. Finding Packages with Filters
2.2.3. Installing and Removing Packages (and Dependencies)
2.2.4. Installing and Removing Package Groups
2.2.5. Viewing the Transaction Log
2.3. PackageKit Architecture
2.4. Additional Resources
3. RPM
3.1. RPM Design Goals
3.2. Using RPM
3.2.1. Finding RPM Packages
3.2.2. Installing and Upgrading
3.2.3. Configuration File Changes
3.2.4. Uninstalling
3.2.5. Freshening
3.2.6. Querying
3.2.7. Verifying
3.3. Checking a Package's Signature
3.3.1. Importing Keys
3.3.2. Verifying Signature of Packages
3.4. Practical and Common Examples of RPM Usage
3.5. Additional Resources
3.5.1. Installed Documentation
3.5.2. Useful Websites
3.5.3. Related Books

  
 
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