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Installing a package

Installing a package - Linux Tutorial

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Installing a package

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- [Instructor] Now that we've had a look at searching for a package, downloading a package, and exploring information about packages, let's actually install something. Here at the command line, I'll use the install command for yum with sudo yum install, and I'll install the software tree. Here I can see a listing of the repositories that yum's currently using. Yours may be different, and if I haven't used yum in a while or haven't updated the information from the repositories, it'll go and refresh that information. Further down I can see that it's working on resolving the dependencies. There wasn't much for it to do, so I'm just getting the one package I requested. Below that I see a list of information about the packages that will be installed. Again, just the one, and I can see the architecture, the package information, which repository it's coming from, and the size of the package coming down. That matches up with what the total download size is, and I can see that once it's…

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