Yum
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RPM
RPM (orginally: Red Hat Package Manager) is a low level package manager distributed by Red Hat and Fedora.
RPM is comparable (and precedes) dpkg on Debian distributions.
Example commands
List installed packages
rpm -qa
List installed files
rpm -ql apache
Get info about a package:
rpm -qi zsh
Yum
Yum is a high-level package manager distributed by Fedora Linux.
Example Commands
Search for a package:
yum search apache
Get info about a package:
yum info zsh
Install a package:
yum install zsh
Remove a package
yum remove zsh
Install updates:
yum update zsh yum update