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Checking what software is installed

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Checking what software is installed

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- [Instructor] We can take a look at packages that are installed with the yum list command as we saw earlier. I can specify a particular package and run that to see if the package is installed. For example, yum list nano. And here under the Installed Packages heading, I can see that nano is installed. Or I can write yum list php and see that php is not installed but it's available, it's listed in the repository but it's not currently installed on our system. I can use yum list also to see what's installed. You'll notice some coloration and different variations here as I scroll up and down. It's a little hard to see here, so let's take a look a little bit more specifically. These are listed in the man page for the yum.com configuration file and you can find them if you search for color dash underscore dash list. First you can see there's a difference between normal text in a package name and a bolder variation. The normal text, like I can see on jasper libs, jbigkit libs, and json-c…

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