software administration
yum
proxy for yum
/etc/yum.conf:
proxy=http://myproxy.com:3128 proxy_username=user proxy_password=pass
other yum options
assumeyes=1
tasks
yum update # updates cache and packages yum upgrade # updates cache and does full upgrade of packages, including auto-remove yum search PATTERN # search for packages yum list --available | grep PATTERN # search for packages
also, see
dnf
extra packages
dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm