Managing Packages And Repositories With Yum And Yumex On Fedora 7 | Linux Today

Managing Packages And Repositories With Yum And Yumex On Fedora 7

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 5, 2007

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“This article explains how to improve/optimize/speed up package
installation with Yum, install packages with ‘Yum Extender’ (a GUI
for Yum with extensive features to manage packages), and manage
different external package repositories–with focus on prevention
of problems with different repositories–on Fedora 7.

“This howto is meant as a practical guide; it does not cover the
theoretical backgrounds. They are treated in a lot of other
documents in the web…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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