Fedora yum update upgrade

What is the difference between yum update and upgrade? This is the short version of the answer. Let me expand what is written above with some more details. YUM stands for Yellow-dog Updater Modified which is a tool that is used to manage software in our system. If you are a complete beginner I highly recommend reading the article in the link below before continuing with this one.

Software packages can be application software like text editors, word processors, etc. The content of the packages managed by these package managers involves the following 4 main components. This is the next question we must address. Repositories or repos for short are basically a place where verified packages are stored for easy retrieval and installation. They can be online like the YUM repository or they can be on a local folder or a DVD where you have a special collection of software that you need.

You can have several repositories from which you can download and install these packages. These can be. For example, consider this situation. I hope you got the point! Any software you install is built on top of other software and hence they are dependent on the base software to be present in the system for them to run on top of.

This post aims to be a general method, although we use Fedora 15 to Fedora 16 as the example. We configure and install grub2 as the bootloader.

These packages could be candidates for removal, but check to see whether you use them directly or if they are used by applications not backed by rpm packages. You can find orphaned packages i. After reboot, you may see new kernel version on new Fedora version. For example, kernel 3. Eric is a systems guy. Fedora is easier to keep updated using the package managers it comes with. Launch the terminal. While this first step is optional, it may help to fix certain problems related to updating packages.

Clean the local YUM repo cache. The following YUM command will check for any available updates. DNF is the default package manager that Fedora incorporates. It solves many of the problems that YUM had memory inefficiency, slower performance, etc. Launch a terminal and clean the DNF cache. If the cache was cleaned, then DNF will rebuild the cache automatically. Note that this process may take quite a while.