How to Enable, Disable and Install Yum Plug-ins | Linux Today

How to Enable, Disable and Install Yum Plug-ins

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Ravi Saive
Oct 26, 2017

YUM plug-ins are small programs that extend and improve the overall performance of the package manager. A few of them are installed by default, while many are not. Yum always notify you which plug-ins, if any, are loaded and active whenever you run any yum command.

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