yum command on Ubuntu – comprehensive guide

Posted on by Shakshi Metha

What is YUM?

(Yellowdog Updater Modified) is an open-source command-line as well as graphical-based package management tool for RPM (RedHat Package Manager) based Linux systems.

It allows users and system administrators to easily install, update, remove or search software packages on a system. It was developed and released by Seth Vidal under GPL (General Public License) as an open-source, which means anyone can be allowed to download and access the code to fix bugs and develop customized packages.

It uses numerous third-party repositories to install packages automatically by resolving their dependencies issues.

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Operations

It can implement operations like:

  • Listing installed packages
  • Listing existed packages
  • Updating available installed packages
  • Removing packages
  • Installing packages

SSH Commands for Ubuntu

  1. To Install.
# sudo apt install yum

2. To check the current OS version in the server

# cat /etc/issue

3. Upgrade the installed packages of Ubuntu

# sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

4. Install ubuntu update manager.

# sudo apt install update-manager-core

5. upgrade Ubuntu server.

# sudo do-release-upgrade

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