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Install/remove packages

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- [Instructor] Installing packages in groups with yum is pretty easy. We'll need to elevate privileges to install, though. If we don't wanna press y each time we install a package, just pass it as an option. Type in sudo, space yum, space -y, space install, space tree and hit enter. Then type in your password and hit enter again. Tree allows us to view our file system as a hierarchy on the command line. The tree package did not have a dependency. Let's install something with dependencies. Type in clear, type in sudo, space yum, space install, space konsole with a k, and hit enter. Notice that we have over 80 dependencies. Konsole is a terminal emulator for the key to e desktop. I'm currently using GNOME 3, so the reason there is so many dependencies is because it needs a lot of key to e libraries that were not installed with GNOME. Press n for no. Earlier in this course, we downloaded some packages without installing them. First we had to install the yum download plugin. If you've…

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