The Red Hat–Based Systems
Like the Debian-based distributions, the Red Hat–based systems have several different front-end tools that are available. These are the common ones:
yum
: Used in Red Hat and Fedoraurpm
: Used in Mandrivazypper
: Used in openSUSE
These front-ends are all based on the rpm
command line tool. The following section discusses how to manage software packages using these various rpm-based tools. The focus is on yum
, but information is also included for zypper
and urpm
.
Listing installed packages
To find out what is currently installed on your system, at the shell prompt, type the following command:
yum list installed
The information will probably whiz by you on the display screen, so it's best to redirect the installed software listing into a file. You can then use the more
or less
command (or a GUI editor) to look at the list in a controlled manner.
yum list installed > installed_software
To list out the installed packages on your openSUSE or...