If the name starts with a "-" character, then a search is done within the transaction and any matches are removed. If the name starts with then it is treated as an environment group (group install an character and it's treated as a group (plain group install). (See Specifying package names for more information) If no package matches the given package name(s), they are assumed to be a shell glob and any matches are then installed. Is used to install the latest version of a package or group of packages while ensuring that all dependencies are satisfied. Repository configuration is honored in all operations. Unless the -help or -h option is given, one of the above commands must be present. (maintained for legacy reasons only - use update) (maintained for legacy reasons only - use install) (maintained for legacy reasons only - use repoquery or yum provides) While there are some graphical interfaces directly to the yum code, more recent graphical interface development is happening with PackageKit and the gnome-packagekit application.
yum is similar to other high level package managers like apt-get and smart. It can also perform installation of new packages, removal of old packages and perform queries on the installed and/or available packages among many other commands/services (see below). It can automatically perform system updates, including dependency analysis and obsolete processing based on "repository" metadata.
Yum is an interactive, rpm based, package manager.
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