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Besides the distributions that use YUM directly, SUSE Linux 10.1 [33] added support for YUM repositories in YaST, and the Open Build Service repositories use the YUM XML repository format metadata. [31] YUM automatically synchronizes the remote meta data to the local client, with other tools opting to synchronize only when requested by the user.
By default, Red Hat Enterprise Linux's up2date retrieves packages from a Red Hat Network (RHN) server, though users can add directories full of packages or even Debian and yum repositories if they wish. up2date on Fedora Core defaults to retrieving packages from yum repositories. Again, other sources can be added (apart from RHN, which is Red ...
A software repository, or repo for short, is a storage location for software packages. Often a table of contents is also stored, along with metadata. A software repository is typically managed by source or version control, or repository managers. Package managers allow automatically installing and updating repositories, sometimes called "packages".
On Scientific Linux, CentOS, and RHEL distributions Environment Modules is in the environment-modules package which can be installed with: sudo yum install environment-modules Once installed the package information can be viewed with: rpm -qi environment-modules rpm -ql environment-modules
DNF (abbreviation for Dandified YUM) [7] [8] [9] is a package manager for Red Hat-based Linux distributions and derivatives. DNF was introduced in Fedora 18 in 2013 as a replacement for yum; [10] it has been the default package manager since Fedora 22 in 2015 [11] and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 [when?] [12] and is also an alternative package manager for Mageia.
In March 2012, Oracle announced free software updates and errata for Oracle Linux on Oracle's public yum repositories. [38] In September 2013, Oracle announced that each month its free public yum servers handle 80 TB of data, and the switch to the Akamai content delivery network to handle the traffic growth. [39]
Cygwin: Free and open-source software repository for Windows NT. Provides many Linux tools and an installation tool with package manager; Homebrew: a port of the MacOS package manager meant for use with Windows Subsystem for Linux, using the already existing Linux port as its base; Ninite: Proprietary package manager for Windows NT;
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