Yellow Dog Updater, Modified
Yum is a great
CLI application, with
GUI front ends, similar to
Apt for
RPMs that makes updating, getting information about, installing and removing RPMs easy. It's used by Yellow Dog,
Fedora Core, and
RHEL (and possibly more
distros I do not know about). When you install something via Yum, Yum automatically downloads and installs all dependencies of the package you want if you don't have the dependencies, putting an end to
dependency hell if the package you want is in your Yum repositories.
A great Yum configuration file for the most recent stable Fedora Core that adds great repositories can be found at http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf
