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Yummy yummy Yum

SERVE ME RIGHT

Author(s): BRUCE BYFIELD

The RPM package manager Yum has its own advantages over other tools.

This article is also available in our Linux Shell Handbook, available on newsstands now. To order the handbook, visit: http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Resources/Special-Editions

A decade ago, Debian users used to look down on users of Red Hat and other RPM-based distributions. Whereas Debian users had aptget and dpkg to save them from dependency hell – situations in which software installation is impossible because of an uninstalled library – users of RPM-based distributions had to dig themselves out of dependency hell on their own.

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