364Part IIIChoosing and Installing a Linux DistributionUpdating Yellow (Web design templates)
364Part IIIChoosing and Installing a Linux DistributionUpdating Yellow Dog LinuxYellow Dog Updated, Modified (yum) is included with Yellow Dog and ships withFedora, Mandrake, and other Linux distributions as well. It s a utility that enables youto update your system packages to the latest available version. Because new securityvulnerabilities are released on all operating systems frequently, updating your systempackages regularly is essential. Updating your packages also gives you the newestfeatures available for the applications you are using. Here are some of the mostwidely used options available with yum (replace packagewith name of package): OptionDescriptionyum listShows all the packages available to be installed (but notinstalled). yum list installedShows installed packages. yum list updatesShows all installed packages that have updates (patches) available. yum install packageInstalls the package you identify in package. yum update packageUpdates the package you identify in package. The greatthing about this is it installs all package dependencies, whichused to be a major headache when administering patches. yum updateUpdates all packages on the system. (Same as precedingoption but does not specify package name.) yum remove packageRemoves the package identified in package. yum info packageProvides detailed information on the package identified inpackage. Using this information, assume that you want to run gimp GNU Image ManipulationProject (GIMP) is a very popular graphics editing program and you haven tinstalled it previously. If you want to get more information on it, you d run: yum info gimpIf you decide you want to install it: yum install gimpIf an update becomes available a week later and you want to patch it: yum update gimp19_