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yum and DNF

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- [Instructor] In this episode, I want to talk about two package managers called YUM and DNF. YUM stands for Yellowdog Updater, Modified and DNF stands for Dandified Yum. Both tools act as a front end for the RPM package management tool. CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux use the YUM package front end and Fedora uses the DNF front end. It's likely that DNF will make the move to Red Hat at some point and then into later versions of CentOS, so it's important to understand how to use both tools. Because DNF is basically a more updated version of YUM, the commands are essentially the same, except for typing YUM or DNF, depending on whether you're on a Red Hat, CentOS, or Fedora system. So we'll take a look at commands that work in both package management tools. In you're on Fedora, just type DNF when I type YUM. We can search for a software in the repositories using YUM search and a search term, or DNF search on Fedora. Let's look up information about the nano text editor. This searches…

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