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Installing and updating software

Installing and updating software

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Installing and updating software

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- [Instructor] Chances are if you're setting up a CentOS server, you'll want to install some software. This minimal install doesn't offer as much just by itself, and we can install software using packages. Packages are little containers for software that we can work with to install, remove, and update the programs on the system. CentOS uses the Yum package management software, which stands for Yellowdog Updater, Modified, in order to install and manage software. Yellowdog was an older distro of Linux that had a package manager good enough to stand the test of time, and it's part of CentOS. Under the hood, Yum uses RPM packages, which are named for Redhat Package Manager. And the RPM command-line tool, that's the actual package manager software doing all the heavy lifting. We can also use RPM directly. But Yum gives us a nice interface to browse repositories, manage packages, resolve dependencies, and all that, without having to specifically download and install packages manually…

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