Installing software

- If you need to install software from the command line,…you can do so using the yum command.…There's a few different things you can do with this.…The most basic is to run yum update,…which will update the system software.…You need to remember to use sudo…when you're installing anything with yum.…Once yum finds all of the packages that needs to update,…it'll show you a summary.…In this case, it shows that I need to…install one package and upgrade 56 packages…for a total download size of 206 megabytes.…These columns up here show the names of the packages…that are going to be updated, the architecture…of the package, the version, which repository…it's coming from, in this case, updates,…and how big each package is.…

I'll type Y and then the packages will be downloaded.…Depending on your internet speed, this could take a while.…I'll clear the screen.…If I want to see if a certain package…exists in the repository, I can write yum provides and nano.…That's a text editor that I enjoy using.…I can see it exists both in the fedora repository…