YUM COMMAND CHEAT SHEET - Red Hat Enterprise Linux

YUM COMMAND

CHEAT SHEET

for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

YUM QUERIES

SUBCOMMAND DESCRIPTIONS AND TASKS

help

Display yum commands and options

yum help

Show yum subcommands and options

Individual packages

list

List package names from repositories

yum list available

List all available packages

yum list installed

List all installed packages

yum list all

List installed and available packages

yum list kernel

List installed and available kernel packages

info

Display information about a package

yum info vsftpd

List info about vsftpd package

deplist

Display dependencies for a package

yum deplist nfs-utils

List dependencies and packages providing them

provides

Find packages that provide the queried le

yum provides “*bin/top”

Show package that contains top command

yum provides “*/README.top”

Show package containing README.top le

Search package names and descriptions for a term

yum search samba

Find packages with samba in name or description

updateinfo

Get information about available package updates

yum updateinfo security

Get info on available security updates

Groups of packages

grouplist List names of installed and available package groups

groupinfo Display description and contents of a package group

yum groupinfo “Web Server”

See packages in Web Server group

check-update Query repositories for available package updates

MANAGE YUM REPOSITORIES

SUBCOMMAND DESCRIPTIONS AND TASKS

repolist Display enabled software repositories

repoinfo Display information about enabled yum repositories *

yum repoinfo rhel-7-server-rpms

See info on rhel-7-server-rpms repo

repo-pkgs Work with packages in a particular repository *

yum repo-pkgs my-rpms list

List packages from my-rpms repo

yum repo-pkgs my-rpms install

Install all packages from my-rpms repo

yum repo-pkgs my-rpms remove

Remove all packages from my-rpms repo

makecache Download yum repository data to cache

TROUBLESHOOT AND MAINTAIN YUM

SUBCOMMAND DESCRIPTIONS AND TASKS

check Check the local RPM database for problems (runs for a

long time)

history View and use yum transactions

yum history list

List all yum install, update and erase actions

yum history info 3

Show details of yum transaction 3

yum history undo 3

Undo the yum action from transaction 3

yum history redo 3

Redo the undone yum action from transaction 3

clean Clear out cached package data

yum clean packages

Delete packages saved in cache

yum clean all

Clean out all packages and meta data from cache

fssnapshot List LVM stapshots (helps roll back after package updates)

fs Act on lesystem (prevent doc or language le install

on minimal systems)

yum fs lters

List enabled lesystem lters

yum fs documentation

Filters all docs from being installed (careful!)

INSTALL, REMOVE AND UPGRADE PACKAGES WITH YUM

SUBCOMMAND DESCRIPTIONS AND TASKS

install Install a package from a repository to your system

yum install vsftpd

Install the vsftpd package

update Update one or all packages on your system

yum update

Update all packages with available updates

yum update httpd

Update the httpd package (if available)

yum update --security

Apply security-related package updates

update-to Update one or all packages to a particular version

upgrade Update packages taking obsoletes into account

localinstall Install a package from a local le, http, or ftp

yum localinstall abc-1-1.i686.rpm

Install abc package from local directory

yum localinstall http://myrepo/abc-1-1.i686.rpm

Install abc from FTP site

downgrade Downgrade a package to an earlier version

yum downgrade abc

Downgrade the abc package to an earlier version

reinstall Reinstall the current version of a package

yum reinstall util-linux

Reinstall util-linux (to replace any deleted les)

swap Remove one package and install another

yum swap ftp lftp

Remove ftp package and install lftp package

erase Erase a package (and possibly dependencies) from

your system

yum remove vsftpd

Remove the vsftpd package and dependencies

remove Same as erase

autoremove

Same as erase, plus removes additional unneeded packages *

yum autoremove httpd

Remove httpd and other unneeded packages

groupinstall Install all packages in the selected group

yum groupinstall “Web server”

Install Web Server packages

MANAGE LANGUAGE PACKAGES WITH YUM

SUBCOMMAND DESCRIPTIONS AND TASKS

langavailable

List all available languages *

langinfo

List packages available for a language *

yum langinfo es

List packages associated with Spanish language

langinstall

Install packages associated with a particular

language *

yum langinstall es

Install packages associated with Spanish

language

langlist

List languages that are installed *

langremove

Remove installed language packs for a language *

yum langremove es

Remove packages associated with Spanish

language

POPULAR OPTIONS FOR DIFFERENT YUM COMMANDS **

OPTION DESCRIPTION

-y

Assume yes if prompted

--assumeno

Assume no if prompted

-q

Produce no output

-v

Produce extra debugging output

--noplugins

Run command without loading any yum plugins

--disableplugin=

Disable a particular plugin for single command

yum --disableplugin=langpacks info vsftpd

--enableplugin=

Enable a plugin that is installed, but currently

disabled

yum --enableplugin=ps ps

Show packages tied to running processes

--enablerepo=

Enable currently disabled repo for a single

command (wildcards okay)

yum install docker \

--enablerepo=rhel-7-server-extras-rpm

--disablerepo=

Disable currently enabled repo for a single

command (wildcards okay)

yum list available --disablerepo=epel

--downloadonly

Download to /var/cache/yum/arch/prod/repo/

packages/, but don’t install

yum install --downloadonly vsftpd

Download vsftpd package to cache

--lter-???=

Replace ??? with vendors, rpm-groups, arches,

and others to lter output

--changelog

Display changelog information of package

MORE YUM-RELATED COMMANDS (install the yum-utils package)

COMMAND DESCRIPTION

nd-repos-of-install

Find which repository a package comes

from

needs-restarting

Find processes that have been updated

and need to restart

repoclosure

Get unmet dependency list from

repositories

repoquery

Query remote repos and local RPM

database

repoquery --requires --resolve bash

Show dependent packages

reposync

Synchronize yum repositories to a local