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Manage RPM packages

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Manage RPM packages

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- [Instructor] Let's use a Linux Enterprise Server software is installed or removed in the form of packages. Now in earlier versions, RPM was all there was which goes all the way back to the days of the Red Hat Package Manager. In '12, we've got Zypper. So let's explore that and see how we can add and remove software. First thing we can do, is make sure we've got some repositories configured properly. So we're gonna zypper and l r for less repos. And we've got a bunch of repos set up here, these are the standard ones for a subscription service. If I want to install some software, I can say sudo zypper install and let's install the git-core. So we're told that not only does git-core need to be installed, but there's a package dependency for perl-error. So these two packages want to be installed, do you want to continue, yes or no default being yes. It is now downloading those packages from the repo and installing them. Let's take the next easy step which is to remove what we just did…

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