
Now I wish to install vim-common but let me do a search using vim ~]# yum search vim. To yum search package you can use yum search which will search the enabled repositories with all the rpms and their descriptions matching the provided name. It happens many times we actually are not aware of the rpm name and try to find it in repository with no luck. Do you know the name of the rpm you plan to install?. If you wish to use specific repo for yum install specific version of rpm, then you can check chapter: YUM install from specific repo in this article Register RHEL 7 host to RHN using subscription manager (with or without proxy). Fix “there are no enabled repos” & create local repository in RHEL 7 & 8. How to set up proxy for yum repository in Linux?. How to fix “another app is currently holding the yum lock” error. If you get any error for yum repolist output, then you should check one of the follow articles depending upon your environment Rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs) 4,777ĪLSO READ: Machine Learning in Video Games Rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) 10,638 *epel-modular Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 *epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 5,546 Last metadata expiration check: 0:34:45 ago on Sat 03:35:19 PM IST.
Updating Subscription Management repositories. You should get a valid list or repositories available and enabled from this ~]# yum repolist.You can use yum repolist to list the available repositories.To use yum it is mandatory that your repositories are properly configured.
If you know what you are doing, you can directly skip to chapter: YUM install specific version of rpm from this article. 1 root root 5 /usr/bin/dnf -> dnf-3Īlthough actually it is single step to yum install specific version of rpm but there are certain pre-requisites which may be good for a newbie to understand the process. 1 root root 5 /usr/bin/yum -> ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/dnf
In this article although I would use YUM install specific version of rpm but in the backend YUM is using DNF in my RHEL 8 environment ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/yum