yum cheat sheet

Info:

Display all the information related to a package:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum info httpd
[satish@host]$ yum install selinux* -y

List:

List all the installed package:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum list installed | grep ansible

List all the available package:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum list available  | grep ansible
[satish@host]$ sudo yum list ansible

Search:

Search package Name:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum search httpd

Provides:

Find the package that gives information of the queried file:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum provides /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Dependency List:

List all the dependency of a particular package:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum deplist docker

Update:

Update a particular package:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum update httpd

Update only security related update:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum update --security

Clean:

Clean all metadata of packages from cache:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum clean all

Makecache:

Download all the package data to cache:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum makecache
[satish@host]$ sudo yum makecache fast

Repolist:

Display all the enabled repositories:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum repolist

Display all the disabled and enabled Repository:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum repolist all

yum --showduplicates:

It displays all the available version of mentioned package:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum list available httpd --showduplicates 
[satish@host]$ sudo yum list docker-ce --showduplicates | sort -r

It displays all the available version of mentioned package except from the mentioned package:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum list available nginx --showduplicates --disablerepo=rhel-7-server-rpms 

Subscription-manager:

[satish@host]$ sudo subscription-manager unregister
[satish@host]$ sudo subscription-manager list -available
[satish@host]$ sudo subscription-manager list


Add repo to yum repository:

[satish@host]$ sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo repository_url

swap:

Remove and install package using single command:

[satish@host]$ yum swap httpd nginx

It will remove httpd and install nginx

Will keep updating this blog, stay tuned !!