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Get info on packages

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Get info on packages

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- (Narrator) There are a couple of Yum subcommands that provide information on software packages: yum list and yum info. Yum list gives us a quick list of packages. Yum info provides more information. To get a list of all packages installed, we'll use yum list installed. Type in yum space list space installed, and hit Enter. With yum list installed, we have three columns. The left column is the package name, the middle column is the version number, and the right column is the repository it came from. In the first column, the package name may be printed in bold or colors. The bold is used to denote that there is a package upgrade available. If we scroll up, we may see a package that's red. In my case, there's one called natuilus-open-terminal. The red coloring means that the package does not exist in the repositories at all. You may or may not have this package on your system. If a red package isn't in the repository, then we might wonder how it got on our system. Look at the last…

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