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Intall and remove packages with Yum

Intall and remove packages with Yum - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Cert Prep: LPIC-1 Exam 101 (Version 5.0)

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Intall and remove packages with Yum

- [Male] Installing packages in groups with YUM was pretty easy. We'll need to elevate privileges to install though. If we don't want to press Y each time we install a package, just pass it as an option. Type in, sudo yum -y install tree, and hit enter, then type in your password and hit enter again. Tree allows us to view our file system as a hierarchy in the command line. The Tree package did not have a dependency. Let's install something with dependencies. Type in clear, type in sudo yum install konsole, with a K, and hit enter. Notice that we have over 80 dependencies. Konsole is a terminal emulator for the KDE desktop. I'm currently using GNOME3, so the reason there's so many dependencies is because it needs a lot of KDE libraries, that were not installed with GNOME. Press N for no. Earlier in this course we downloaded some packages without installing them. First we had to install the YUM download plugin. If…

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