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