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CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

You're reading from   CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide A comprehensive guide to achieving LX0-103 and LX0-104 certifications with mock exams

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789344493
Length 590 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Configuring the Hardware Settings FREE CHAPTER 2. Booting the System 3. Changing Runlevels and Boot Targets 4. Designing a Hard Disk Layout 5. Installing a Linux Distribution 6. Using Debian Package Management 7. Using YUM Package Management 8. Performing File Management 9. Creating, Monitoring, Killing, and Restarting Processes 10. Modifying Process Execution 11. Display Managers 12. Managing User and Group Accounts 13. Automating Tasks 14. Maintaining System Time and Logging 15. Fundamentals of Internet Protocol 16. Network Configuration and Troubleshooting 17. Performing Administrative Security Tasks 18. Shell Scripting and SQL Data Management 19. Mock Exam - 1 20. Mock Exam - 2 21. Assessment 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

YUM

Yellowdog Updater, Modified, is commonly known as YUM. YUM is an open source command-line method for package management for systems using a Red Hat distribution. As Linux administrators, YUM enables us to perform automatic updates and package and dependency management on RPM-based distributions. YUM is similar in nature to its Debian counterpart, APT. The YUM utility makes use of various software repositories.

A software repo, as it is commonly called, stores a variety of packages. One of the main reasons for using YUM is that it detects whether any dependency files are needed for a particular package. It then prompts the user of the needed files and offers to install them as part of the package installation, which the user should have initiated from the get-go.

An interesting point to note is the fact that YUM works with RPM packages.

To begin with, we can view the available...

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