Information about the package, yum-utils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The yum-utils package is designed for, Utilities based around the yum package manager.
Package Name:
yum-utils
Summary:
Utilities based around the yum package manager
Description:
yum-utils is a collection of utilities and examples for the yum package manager. It includes utilities by different authors that make yum easier and more powerful to use. These tools include: debuginfo-install, find-repos-of-install, needs-restarting, package-cleanup, repoclosure, repodiff, repo-graph, repomanage, repoquery, repo-rss, reposync, repotrack, show-installed, show-changed-rco, verifytree, yumdownloader, yum-builddep, yum-complete-transaction, yum-config-manager, yum-debug-dump, yum-debug-restore and yum-groups-manager.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.1.30
Release:
40.el6
Size:
308 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the yum-utils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install yum-utils
This command will install yum-utils on the server.
yum remove yum-utils
This command will un-install yum-utils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove yum-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove yum-utils
This command will un-install yum-utils on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove yum-utils when using the -y flag.
yum update yum-utils
This command will update yum-utils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove yum-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update yum-utils
This command will update yum-utils to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove yum-utils when using the -y flag.
yum info yum-utils
This command will show you core information about the yum-utils package.
yum deplist yum-utils
This command will show you the dependencies for yum-utils. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update yum-utils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on yum-utils. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.