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Upgrading software

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Upgrading software

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- [Instructor] Part of maintaining a system is ensuring that its software is up to date. Updated software can bring new features, stability improvement, and important security patches to keep your system secure. Here on CentOS, we can update the software fairly easily with a yum package manager which acts as an interface to the Red Hat package manager software or rpm. On Fedora, the package manager is called dnf and it works in pretty much the same way. These package managers search repositories or lists of software for each distro for updated software and figure out what dependencies or steps need to be taken in order for the software to be installed correctly. For more information about package management, take a look at the package management courses in our library. Update server leased into the repository frequently and it's a good idea to check frequently too, but you don't necessarily want to go run updates everyday without taking a look at what they are. In a larger deployment,…

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