Yellow dog Updater Modified
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Yellow Dog Updater, Modified, yum for short, is a package manager for RPM Package Manager compatible Linux systems.

Its main advantages over the RPM version of the Advanced Packaging Tool apt are

• Smaller codebase
• Better dependency handling

Yum is the standard tool for updating Fedora Linux.

See also:

• Yellow Dog Linux

External Links

• Yellow dog Updater, Modified - homepage
• Yum automated software installation and update for Red Hat Linux
• Fedora Linux

The original article can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_dog_Updater_Modified.
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