yum (Yell dog Updater, Modified) is an automated package management program which may be used to install, remove, and update packages on an RPM based system. It will help you to keep your system up to date and is used by Fedora Core, the successor to Red Hat Linux. Unfortunately, it wasn't included in original 7.x release of Red Hat Linux, however, we have prepared a yum package for you to get the full yum functionality on your existing Red Hat Linux 7.x system. To install it, use the following command as the root user on your machine:
# rpm -ivh http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/7.3/i386/RPMS.legacy/yum-1.0.3-3.0.7.x.legacy.noarch.rpm
yum automatically used the correct configuration for your system (7.2 or 7.3), so you can install the above RPM on any 7.2 or 7.3 systems.
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Once you have installed the yum package, you should run the following command as the root user on your system to update the packages:
# yum update
This will download the current package list for your system, download the updates for all packages which require updating, and install them on your system. Warning: This may take some time on your first use of yum, depending on how up to date your system is and the speed of your internet connection! Are there any disk space issues with doing this?
yum has the ability to automatically apply (download/verify/install) all updates to your system, but this feature is disabled by default. If you want to enable that functionality, please enter the following command as the root user on your system:
# chkconfig yum on
# service yum start
After that, yum will update your system through the cron job /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron, which will run every night (or later through anacron, if your system isn't running all the time).
You may subscribe to the fedora-legacy-announce mailing list to be informed by e-mail when new updates become available.
The Fedora Legacy project is always in the need of helping hands. Please check the Participate section of our website to see what you can do to help us. As we're a community project, our success will heavily depend on helping hands – possibly you! Thanks a lot.
This section doesn't technically belong here, as Eric reminded me. However, in my imagination most users will follow the instructions and then never return if everything works fine. IMHO here's a good place to encourage them to check if they might have some spare time to spend on our project - just to remind them that others have built it in _their_ spare time for them. I simply hope that including participation as the final step on using Fedora Legacy reminds them that they're using a community project that can be improved through their contributions, but I leave this open to discussion. Please include a vote on this when giving feedback on the mailing list.
Please visit the Download section of our website for further usage examples and advanced information about using yum.