yum(8)

yum(8)

NAME
yum - Yellowdog Updater Modified

SYNOPSIS
yum [options] [command] [package ...]

DESCRIPTION
yum is an interactive, rpm based, package manager. It can automatically
perform system updates, including dependency analysis and obsolete processing based
on "repository" metadata. It can also perform installation of new packages,
removal of old packages and perform queries on the installed and/or available
packages among many other commands/services (see below). yum is similar to
other high level package managers like apt-get and smart.

While there are some graphical interfaces directly to the yum code,
more recent graphical interface development is happening with PackageKit and the
gnome-packagekit application.

command is one of:

* install package1 [package2] [...]
* update [package1] [package2] [...]
* update-to [package1] [package2] [...]
* update-minimal [package1] [package2] [...]
* check-update
* upgrade [package1] [package2] [...]
* upgrade-to [package1] [package2] [...]
* distribution-synchronization [package1] [package2] [...]
* remove | erase package1 [package2] [...]
* autoremove [package1] [...]
* list [...]
* info [...]
* provides | whatprovides feature1 [feature2] [...]
* clean [ packages | metadata | expire-cache | rpmdb | plugins | all ]
* makecache [fast]
* groups [...]
* search string1 [string2] [...]
* shell [filename]
* resolvedep dep1 [dep2] [...]
(maintained for legacy reasons only - use repoquery or yum provides)
* localinstall rpmfile1 [rpmfile2] [...]
(maintained for legacy reasons only - use install)
* localupdate rpmfile1 [rpmfile2] [...]
(maintained for legacy reasons only - use update)
* reinstall package1 [package2] [...]
* downgrade package1 [package2] [...]
* deplist package1 [package2] [...]
* repolist [all|enabled|disabled]
* repoinfo [all|enabled|disabled]
* repository-packages <enabled-repoid> <install|remove|remove-or-reinstall|
remove-or-distribution-synchronization> [package2] [...]
* version [ all | installed | available | group-* | nogroups* | grouplist |
groupinfo ]
* history [info|list|packages-list|packages-info|summary|addon-info|redo|
undo|rollback|new|sync|stats]
 * load-transaction [txfile]
* updateinfo [summary | list | info | remove-pkgs-ts | exclude-updates |
exclude-all | check-running-kernel]
* fssnapshot [summary | list | have-space | create | delete]
* fs [filters | refilter | refilter-cleanup | du]
* check
* help [command]

Unless the --help or -h option is given, one of the above commands must be
present.

Repository configuration is honored in all operations.

install
Is used to install the latest version of a package or group of
packages while ensuring that all dependencies are satisfied. (See Specifying
package
names for more information) If no package matches the given package
name(s), they are assumed to be a shell glob and any matches are then installed.
If the name starts with @^ then it is treated as an environment group
(group install @^foo), an @ character and it's treated as a group (plain group
install).

If the name starts with a "-" character, then a search is done within
the transaction and any matches are removed. Note that Yum options use the same
syntax and it may be necessary to use "--" to resolve any possible
conflicts.

If the name is a file, then install works like localinstall. If the

name doesn't match a package, then package "provides" are searched (e.g.
"_sqlitecache.so()(64bit)") as are filelists (Eg. "/usr/bin/yum").
Also note that for filelists, wildcards will match multiple packages.

Because install does a lot of work to make it as easy as possible

to use, there are also a few specific install commands "install-n", "install-na"
and "install-nevra". These only work on package names, and do not
process wildcards etc.

update If run without any packages, update will update every currently
installed package. If one or more packages or package globs are specified, Yum
will
only update the listed packages. While updating packages, yum
will ensure that all dependencies are satisfied. (See Specifying package names for
more information) If the packages or globs specified match to
packages which are not currently installed then update will not install them.
update
operates on groups, files, provides and filelists just like the
"install" command.

If the main obsoletes configure option is true (default) or the

--obsoletes flag is present yum will include package obsoletes in its calculations
-
this makes it better for distro-version changes, for example:
upgrading from somelinux 8.0 to somelinux 9.

Note that "update" works on installed packages first, and only if

there are no matches does it look for available packages. The difference is most
noticeable when you do "update foo-1-2" which will act exactly as
"update foo" if foo-1-2 is installed. You can use the "update-to" if you'd prefer
 that nothing happen in the above case.

update-to
This command works like "update" but always specifies the version of
the package we want to update to.

update-minimal
This works like the update command, but if you have the package foo-1
installed and have foo-2 (bugfix) and foo-3 (enhancement) available with
updateinfo.xml then update-minimal --bugfix will update you to foo-2.

check-update
Implemented so you could know if your machine had any updates that
needed to be applied without running it interactively. Returns exit value of 100
if there are packages available for an update. Also returns a list of
the packages to be updated in list format. Returns 0 if no packages are avail‐
able for update. Returns 1 if an error occurred. Running in verbose
mode also shows obsoletes.

upgrade
Is the same as the update command with the --obsoletes flag set. See
update for more details.

upgrade-to
This command works like "upgrade" but always specifies the version of
the package we want to update to.

distribution-synchronization or distro-sync
Synchronizes the installed package set with the latest packages
available, this is done by either obsoleting, upgrading or downgrading as appropri‐
ate. This will "normally" do the same thing as the upgrade command
however if you have the package FOO installed at version 4, and the latest avail‐
able is only version 3, then this command will downgrade FOO to
version 3.

If you give the optional argument "full", then the command will also
reinstall packages where the install checksum and the available checksum do not
match. And remove old packages (can be used to sync. rpmdb versions).
The optional argument "different" can be used to specify the default operation.

This command does not perform operations on groups, local packages or

negative selections.

remove or erase
Are used to remove the specified packages from the system as well as
removing any packages which depend on the package being removed. remove operates
on groups, files, provides and filelists just like the "install"
command.(See Specifying package names for more information)

Note that "yum" is included in the protected_packages configuration,

by default. So you can't accidentally remove yum itself.

The remove_leaf_only configuration changes the behaviour of this

command to only remove packages which aren't required by something else.

The clean_requirements_on_remove configuration changes the behaviour

of this command to also remove packages that are only dependencies of this pack‐
age.
 Because remove does a lot of work to make it as easy as possible to
use, there are also a few specific remove commands "remove-n", "remove-na" and
"remove-nevra". These only work on package names, and do not process
wildcards etc.

autoremove

With one or more arguments this command works like running the
"remove" command with the clean_requirements_on_remove turned on. However you can
also
specify no arguments, at which point it tries to remove any packages
that weren't installed explicitly by the user and which aren't required by any‐
thing (so called leaf packages).

Because autoremove does a lot of work to make it as easy as

possible to use, there are also a few specific autoremove commands "autoremove-n",
"autoremove-na" and "autoremove-nevra". These only work on package
names, and do not process wildcards etc.

list Is used to list various information about available packages; more

complete details are available in the List Options section below.

provides or whatprovides
Is used to find out which package provides some feature or file. Just
use a specific name or a file-glob-syntax wildcards to list the packages avail‐
able or installed that provide that feature or file.

search This is used to find packages when you know something about the
package but aren't sure of it's name. By default search will try searching just
pack‐
age names and summaries, but if that "fails" it will then try
descriptions and url.

Yum search orders the results so that those packages matching more
terms will appear first.

You can force searching everything by specifying "all" as the first

argument.

info Is used to list a description and summary information about available

packages; takes the same arguments as in the List Options section below.

clean Is used to clean up various things which accumulate in the yum cache
directory over time. More complete details can be found in the Clean Options
section below.

makecache
Is used to download and make usable all the metadata for the
currently enabled yum repos. If the argument "fast" is passed, then we just try to
make
sure the repos are current (much like "yum clean expire-cache").

groups A command, new in 3.4.2, that collects all the subcommands that act
on groups together. Note that recent yum using distributions (Fedora-19+,
RHEL-7+) have configured group_command=objects which changes how
group commands act in some important ways.

"group install" is used to install all of the individual

packages in a group, of the specified types (this works as if you'd taken each of
those
package names and put them on the command line for a "yum install"
command).
The group_package_types configuration option specifies which types
will be installed.
If you wish to "reinstall" a group so that you get a package that is
currently blacklisted the easiest way to do that currently is to install the
package manually and then run "groups mark packages-sync mygroup
mypackagename" (or use yumdb to set the group_member of the package(s)).

"group update" is just an alias for group install, when using

group_command=compat. This will install packages in the group not already installed
and
upgrade existing packages. With group_command=simple it will just
upgrade already installed packages. With group_command=objects it will try to
upgrade the group object, installing any available packages not
blacklisted (marked '-' in group info) and will upgrade the installed packages.

"group list" is used to list the available groups from all yum
repos. When group_command=objects the group is installed if the user explicitly
installed it (or used the group mark* commands to mark it installed).
It does not need to have any packages installed. When not using group_com‐
mand=objects groups are shown as "installed" if all mandatory
packages are installed, or if a group doesn't have any mandatory packages then it
is
installed if any of the optional or default package are installed
(when not in group_command=objects mode). You can pass optional arguments to the
list/summary commands: installed, available, environment,
language, packages, hidden and ids (or any of those prefixed by "no" to turn them
off
again). Note that groups that are available but hidden will not be
listed unless ´hidden´ keyword is passed to the command. If you pass the -v
option, to enable verbose mode, then the groupids are displayed by
default (but "yum group list ids" is often easier to read).

"group remove" is used to remove all of the packages in a group,

unlike "groupinstall" this will remove everything regardless of
group_package_types.
It is worth pointing out that packages can be in more than one group,
so "group install X Y" followed by "group remove Y" does not do give you the
same result as "group install X".

The groupremove_leaf_only configuration changes the behaviour of this

command to only remove packages which aren't required by something else.

"group info" is used to give the description and package list of

a group (and which type those packages are marked as). Note that you can use the
yum-filter-data and yum-list-data plugins to get/use the data the
other way around (i.e. what groups own packages need updating). If you pass the -v
option, to enable verbose mode, then the package names are matched
against installed/available packages similar to the list command.

When using group_command=objects, the info command will display

markers next to each package saying how that package relates to the group object.
The
meaning of these markers is:

"-" = Package isn't installed, and won't be installed as part of the

group (Eg. "yum group install foo -pkgA" or "yum group install foo; yum remove
 pkgA" … this will have pkgA marked as '-')
"+" = Package isn't installed, but will be the next time you run "yum
upgrade" or "yum group upgrade foo"
" " = Package is installed, but wasn't installed via the group (so
"group remove foo" won't remove it).
"=" = Package is installed, and was installed via the group.

you can move an installed package into an installed group using

either "group mark package-sync/package-sync-forced" or "yumdb set group_member".

"group summary" is used to give a quick summary of how many groups

are installed and available.

"group mark" and "group unmark" are used when groups are configured
in group_command=objects mode. These commands then allow you to alter yum's idea
of which groups are installed, and the packages that belong to them.

"group mark install" mark the group as installed. When installed "yum
upgrade" and "yum group upgrade" will install new packages for the group (only
those packages already installed will be marked as members of the
installed group to start with).

"group mark remove" the opposite of mark install.

"group mark packages" takes a group id (which must be installed) and

marks any given installed packages (which aren't members of a group) as members
of the group. Note that the data from the repositories does not need
to specify the packages as a member of the group.

"group mark packages-force" works like mark packages, but doesn't

care if the packages are already members of another group.

"group mark blacklist" will blacklist all packages marked to be

installed for a group. After this command a "yum group upgrade" will not install
any
new packages as part of the group.

"group mark convert-blacklist"

"group mark convert-whitelist"

"group mark convert" converts the automatic data you get without
using groups as objects into groups as objects data, in other words this will make
"yum --setopt=group_command=objects groups list" look as similar as
possible to the current output of "yum --setopt=group_command=simple groups
list". This makes it much easier to convert to groups as objects
without having to reinstall. For groups that are installed the whitelist variant
will mark all uninstalled packages for the group as to be installed
on the next "yum group upgrade", the blacklist variant (current default) will
mark them all as blacklisted.

"group unmark packages" remove a package as a member from any groups.

shell Is used to enter the 'yum shell', when a filename is specified

the contents of that file is executed in yum shell mode. See yum-shell(8) for more
info.

resolvedep
Is used to list packages providing the specified dependencies, at
most one package is listed per dependency. This command is maintained for legacy
reasons only, use repoquery instead.

localinstall
Is used to install a set of local rpm files. If required the enabled
repositories will be used to resolve dependencies. Note that the install command
will do a local install, if given a filename. This command is
maintained for legacy reasons only.

localupdate
Is used to update the system by specifying local rpm files. Only the
specified rpm files of which an older version is already installed will be
installed, the remaining specified packages will be ignored. If
required the enabled repositories will be used to resolve dependencies. Note that
the update command will do a local update, if given a filename. This
command is maintained for legacy reasons only.

reinstall
Will reinstall the identically versioned package as is currently
installed. This does not work for "installonly" packages, like Kernels.
reinstall
operates on groups, files, provides and filelists just like the
"install" command.

downgrade
Will try and downgrade a package from the version currently
installed to the previously highest version (or the specified version). The
depsolver
will not necessarily work, but if you specify all the packages it
should work (thus, all the simple cases will work). Also this does not work for
"installonly" packages, like Kernels. downgrade operates on groups,
files, provides, filelists and rpm files just like the "install" command.

swap At it's simplest this is just a simpler way to remove one set of
package(s) and install another set of package(s) without having to use the "shell"
command. However you can specify different commands to call than
just remove or install, and you can list multiple packages (it splits using the
"--" marker). Note that option parsing will remove the first "--" in
an argument list on the command line.

Examples:

swap foo bar

swap -- remove foo -- install bar
swap foo group install bar-grp
swap -- group remove foo-grp -- group install bar-grp

deplist
Produces a list of all dependencies and what packages provide
those dependencies for the given packages. As of 3.2.30 it now just shows the
latest
version of each package that matches (this can be changed by using
--showduplicates) and it only shows the newest providers (which can be changed by
using --verbose).

repolist
Produces a list of configured repositories. The default is to list
all enabled repositories. If you pass -v, for verbose mode, or use repoinfo then
 more information is listed. If the first argument is ´enabled´,
´disabled´ or ´all´ then the command will list those types of repos.

You can pass repo id or name arguments, or wildcards which to match

against both of those. However if the id or name matches exactly then the repo
will be listed even if you are listing enabled repos and it is
disabled.

In non-verbose mode the first column will start with a ´*´ if the
repo. has metalink data and the latest metadata is not local and will start with a
´!´ if the repo. has metadata that is expired. For non-verbose mode
the last column will also display the number of packages in the repo. and (if
there are any user specified excludes) the number of packages
excluded.

One last special feature of repolist, is that if you are in non-

verbose mode then yum will ignore any repo errors and output the information it can
get (Eg. "yum clean all; yum -C repolist" will output something,
although the package counts/etc. will be zeroed out).

repoinfo

This command works exactly like repolist -v.

repository-packages
Treat a repo. as a collection of packages (like "yum groups")
allowing the user to install or remove them as a single entity.

"repository-packages <repo> list" - Works like the "yum list"

command, but only shows packages from the given repository.

"repository-packages <repo> info" - Works like the "yum info"

command, but only shows packages from the given repository.

"repository-packages <repo> check-update" - Works like the "yum

check-update" command, but only shows packages from the given repository.

"repository-packages <repo> install" - Install all of the packages in

the repository, basically the same as: yum install $(repoquery --repoid=<repo>
-a). Specific packages/wildcards can be specified.

"repository-packages <repo> upgrade" - Update all of the packages

in the repository, basically the same as: yum upgrade $(repoquery --repoid=<repo>
-a). Specific packages/wildcards can be specified.

"repository-packages <repo> upgrade-to" - Update all of the

packages in the repository, basically the same as: yum upgrade $
(repoquery
--repoid=<repo> -a). Without arguments it works the same as upgrade,
with arguments it just interprets them as the versions you want to move to.

"repository-packages <repo> reinstall-old" - ReInstall all of the

packages that are installed from the repository and available in the repository,
similar to: yum reinstall $(yumdb search-quiet from_repo <repo>).

"repository-packages <repo> move-to" - ReInstall all of the packages

that are available in the repository, basically the same as: yum reinstall
$(repoquery --repoid=<repo> -a).
 "repository-packages <repo> reinstall" - Tries to do reinstall-old,
but if that produces no packages then tries move-to.

"repo-pkgs <repo> remove" - Remove all of the packages in the

repository, very similar to: yum remove $(repoquery --repoid=<repo> -a). However
the
repopkgsremove_leaf_only option is obeyed.

"repo-pkgs <repo> remove-or-reinstall" - Works like remove for any

package that doesn't have the exact same version in another repository. For any
package that does have the exact NEVRA in another repository then
that version will be reinstalled.

"repo-pkgs <repo> remove-or-distro-sync" - Works like remove for

any package that doesn't exist in another repository. For any package that does
exist it tries to work as if distro-sync was called (with the repo.
disabled).

version
Produces a "version" of the rpmdb, and of the enabled repositories if
"all" is given as the first argument. You can also specify version groups in
the version-groups configuration file. If you pass -v, for verbose
mode, more information is listed. The version is calculated by taking an SHA1 hash
of the packages (in sorted order), and the
checksum_type/checksum_data entries from the yumdb. Note that this rpmdb version is
now also used signifi‐
cantly within yum (esp. in yum history).

The version command will now show "groups" of packages as a separate

version, and so takes sub-commands:

"version grouplist" - List the defined version groups.

"version groupinfo" - Get the complete list of packages within one or

more version groups.

"version installed" - This is the default, only show the version

information for installed packages.

"version available" - Only show the version information for available

packages.

"version all" - Show the version information for installed and

available packages.

"version nogroups | nogroups-*" - Just show the main version

information.

"version group-*" - Just show the grouped version information, if

more arguments are given then only show the data for those groups.

history
The history command allows the user to view what has happened in
past transactions (assuming the history_record config. option is set). You can use
info/list/packages-list/packages-info/summary to view what happened,
undo/redo/rollback to act on that information and new to start a new history
file.
 The info/list/summary commands take either a transaction id or a
package (with wildcards, as in Specifying package names), all three can also be
passed no arguments. list can be passed the keyword "all" to list all
the transactions.

The info command can also take ranges of transaction ids, of the form
start..end, which will then display a merged history as if all the transactions
in the range had happened at once.
Eg. "history info 1..4" will merge the first four transactions and
display them as a single transaction.

The packages-list/packages-info commands takes a package (with

wildcards, as in Specifying package names). And show data from the point of view of
that package.

The undo/redo/rollback commands take either a single transaction id

or the keyword last and an offset from the last transaction (Eg. if you've done
250 transactions, "last" refers to transaction 250, and "last-4"
refers to transaction 246). The redo command can also take some optional arguments
before you specify the transaction. "force-reinstall" tells it
reinstall any packages that were installed in that transaction (via install,
upgrade
or downgrade). "force-remove" tells it to forcibly remove any
packages that were updated or downgraded.

The undo/redo commands act on the specified transaction, undo'ing or

repeating the work of that transaction. While the rollback command will undo all
transactions up to the point of the specified transaction. For
example, if you have 3 transactions, where package A; B and C where installed
respec‐
tively. Then "undo 1" will try to remove package A, "redo 1" will
try to install package A (if it is not still installed), and "rollback 1" will try
to remove packages B and C. Note that after a "rollback 1" you will
have a fourth transaction, although the ending rpmdb version (see: yum version)
should be the same in transactions 1 and 4.

The addon-info command takes a transaction ID, and the packages-list

command takes a package (with wildcards).

The stats command shows some statistics about the current history DB.

The sync commands allows you to change the rpmdb/yumdb data

stored for any installed packages, to whatever is in the current rpmdb/yumdb (this
is
mostly useful when this data was not stored when the package went
into the history DB).

In "history list" you can change the behaviour of the 2nd column via
the configuration option history_list_view.

In "history list" output the Altered column also gives some extra
information if there was something not good with the transaction (this is also
shown at the end of the package column in the packages-list command).

> - The rpmdb was changed, outside yum, after the transaction.
< - The rpmdb was changed, outside yum, before the transaction.
* - The transaction aborted before completion.
# - The transaction completed, but with a non-zero status.
 E - The transaction completed fine, but had warning/error output
during the transaction.
P - The transaction completed fine, but problems already existed in
the rpmdb.
s - The transaction completed fine, but --skip-broken was enabled and
had to skip some packages.

load-transaction
This command will re-load a saved yum transaction file, this allows
you to run a transaction on one machine and then use it on another. The two com‐
mon ways to get a saved yum transaction file are from "yum -q history
addon-info last saved_tx" or via the automatic saves in $TMPDIR/yum_save_tx.*
when a transaction is solved but not run.

Running the command without an argument, or a directory as an

argument will try and list the possible files available to load. Showing if the
pack‐
ages are still available, if the rpmdb matches the current rpmdb, how
many transaction install/removes members are in the saved transaction and what
the filename is.

updateinfo
This command has a bunch of sub-commands to act on the updateinfo in
the repositories. The simplest commands are:

yum updateinfo info [all | available | installed | updates]

yum updateinfo list [all | available | installed | updates]
yum updateinfo [summary] [all | available | installed | updates]

which all display information about the available update information

relevant to your machine (including anything installed, if you supply "all").

* updates Is used to display information about advisories for

packages that can be updated. This is the default.
* installed Is used to display information only about installed
advisories.
* available Is used to display information about advisories for
packages available for updating or installation.
* all Is used to display information about both installed and
available advisories.

They all take as arguments:

* <advisory> [advisory...] Is used to display information about one

or more advisories.

* <package> [package...] Is used to display information about one

or more packages.

* bugzillas / bzs Is the subset of the updateinfo information,

pertaining to the bugzillas.

* cves Is the subset of the updateinfo information, pertaining to

the CVEs.

* enhancement Is the subset of the updateinfo information,

pertaining to enhancements.

* bugfix Is the subset of the updateinfo information, pertaining to

bugfixes.

* security / sec Is the subset of the updateinfo information,

pertaining to security.

* severity / sev Include security relevant packages of this

severity.

* recommended Is the subset of the updateinfo information,

pertaining to recommended updates.

* new-packages Is the subset of the updateinfo information,

pertaining to new packages. These are packages which weren't available at the
initial
release of your distribution.

There are also three sub-commands to remove packages when using "yum
shell", they are:

yum updateinfo remove-pkgs-ts

yum updateinfo exclude-updates

yum updateinfo exclude-all

they all take the following arguments:

* [bzs=foo] [advisories=foo] [cves=foo] [security-severity=foo]

[security] [bugfix]

and finally there is a command to manually check the running kernel

against updateinfo data:

yum updateinfo check-running-kernel

fssnapshot or fssnap
This command has a few sub-commands to act on the LVM data of the
host, to list snapshots and to create and remove them. The simplest commands, to
display information about the configured LVM snapshotable devices,
are:

yum fssnapshot [summary]

yum fssnapshot list
yum fssnapshot have-space

then you can create and delete snapshots using:

yum fssnapshot create

yum fssnapshot delete <device(s)>

Configuration Options: fssnap_automatic_pre, fssnap_automatic_post,

fssnap_automatic_keep, fssnap_percentage, fssnap_devices, fssnap_abort_on_errors

fs This command has a few sub-commands to act on the filesystem data of

the host, mainly for removing languages/documentation for minimal installs:

yum fs filters

yum fs filter languages en:es

yum fs filter documentation

yum fs refilter [package(s)]

yum fs refilter-cleanup [package(s)]

yum fs du [path]

yum fs status [path]

yum fs diff [path]

the first 3 being a simple interface to change yum.conf altering

the tsflags and override_install_langs configurations. The refilter command is an
optimized way of calling "yum reinstall" to reinstall the packages
with the new filters applied. The refilter-cleanup command is needed because rpm
doesn't actually remove the files on reinstall, as it should. And the
du/status/diff commands are included so you can easily see the space used/saved
and any other changes.

check Checks the local rpmdb and produces information on any problems it
finds. You can pass the check command the arguments "dependencies", "duplicates",
"obsoleted" or "provides", to limit the checking that is performed
(the default is "all" which does all).

help Produces help, either for all commands or if given a command name
then the help for that particular command.

GENERAL OPTIONS
Most command line options can be set using the configuration file as well
and the descriptions indicate the necessary configuration option to set.

-h, --help
Help; display a help message and then quit.

-y, --assumeyes
Assume yes; assume that the answer to any question which would be
asked is yes.
Configuration Option: assumeyes

--assumeno
Assume no; assume that the answer to any question which would be
asked is no. This option overrides assumeyes, but is still subject to alwaysprompt.
Configuration Option: assumeno

-c, --config=[config file]

Specifies the config file location - can take HTTP and FTP URLs and
local file paths.

-q, --quiet
 Run without output. Note that you likely also want to use -y.

-v, --verbose
Run with a lot of debugging output.

-d, --debuglevel=[number]
Sets the debugging level to [number] - turns up or down the amount of
things that are printed. Practical range: 0 - 10
Configuration Option: debuglevel

-e, --errorlevel=[number]
Sets the error level to [number] Practical range 0 - 10. 0 means
print only critical errors about which you must be told. 1 means print all errors,
even ones that are not overly important. 1+ means print more errors
(if any) -e 0 is good for cron jobs.
Configuration Option: errorlevel

--rpmverbosity=[name]
Sets the debug level to [name] for rpm scriptlets. 'info' is the
default, other options are: 'critical', 'emergency', 'error', 'warn' and 'debug'.
Configuration Option: rpmverbosity

-R, --randomwait=[time in minutes]

Sets the maximum amount of time yum will wait before performing a
command - it randomizes over the time.

-C, --cacheonly
Tells yum to run entirely from system cache; does not download or
update metadata. When this is used by a non-root user, yum will run entirely from
user cache in $TMPDIR. This option doesn't stop yum from updating
user cache from system cache locally if the latter is newer (this is always done
when running as a user).

--version
Reports the yum version number and installed package versions for
everything in history_record_packages (can be added to by plugins).

--showduplicates
Doesn't limit packages to their latest versions in the info, list and
search commands (will also affect plugins which use the doPackageLists() API).

--installroot=root
Specifies an alternative installroot, relative to which all packages
will be installed. Think of this like doing "chroot <root> yum" except using
--installroot allows yum to work before the chroot is created.
Note: You may also want to use the option --releasever=/ when creating the install‐
root as otherwise the $releasever value is taken from the rpmdb
within the installroot (and thus. will be empty, before creation).
Configuration Option: installroot

--enablerepo=repoidglob
Enables specific repositories by id or glob that have been disabled
in the configuration file using the enabled=0 option.
Configuration Option: enabled

--disablerepo=repoidglob
Disables specific repositories by id or glob.
Configuration Option: enabled
 --obsoletes
This option only has affect for an update, it enables yum´s obsoletes
processing logic. For more information see the update command above.
Configuration Option: obsoletes

-x, --exclude=package
Exclude a specific package by name or glob from all repositories, so
yum works as if that package was never in the repositories. This is commonly
used so a package isn't upgraded or installed accidentally, but can
be used to remove packages in any way that "yum list" will show packages.

Can be disabled using --disableexcludes. Configuration Option:

exclude, includepkgs

--color=[always|auto|never]
Display colorized output automatically, depending on the output
terminal, always (using ANSI codes) or never. Note that some commands (Eg. list and
info) will do a little extra work when color is enabled.
Configuration Option: color

--disableexcludes=[all|main|repoid]
Disable the excludes defined in your config files. Takes one of three
options:
all == disable all excludes
main == disable excludes defined in [main] in yum.conf
repoid == disable excludes defined for that repo

--disableincludes=[all|repoid]
Disable the includes defined in your config files. Takes one of two
options:
all == disable all includes
repoid == disable includes defined for that repo

--disableplugin=plugin
Run with one or more plugins disabled, the argument is a comma
separated list of wildcards to match against plugin names.

--noplugins
Run with all plugins disabled.
Configuration Option: plugins

--nogpgcheck
Run with GPG signature checking disabled.
Configuration Option: gpgcheck

--skip-broken
Resolve depsolve problems by removing packages that are causing
problems from the transaction.
Configuration Option: skip_broken

--releasever=version
Pretend the current release version is the given string. This is very
useful when combined with --installroot. You can also use --releasever=/ to
take the releasever information from outside the installroot.
Note that with the default upstream cachedir, of /var/cache/yum, using this option
will corrupt your cache (and you can use $releasever in your cachedir
configuration to stop this).

-t, --tolerant
 This option makes yum go slower, checking for things that shouldn't
be possible making it more tolerant of external errors.

--downloadonly
Don't update, just download. This is done in the background, so the
yum lock is released for other operations. This can also be chosen by typing
'd'ownloadonly at the transaction confirmation prompt.

--downloaddir=directory
Specifies an alternate directory to store packages.

--setopt=option=value
Set any config option in yum config or repo files. For
options in the global config just use: --setopt=option=value for repo options use:
--setopt=repoid.option=value

--security
This option includes packages that say they fix a security issue, in
updates.

--advisory=ADVS, --advisories=ADVS
This option includes in updates packages corresponding to the
advisory ID, Eg. FEDORA-2201-123.

--bz=BZS
This option includes in updates packages that say they fix a Bugzilla
ID, Eg. 123.

--cve=CVES
This option includes in updates packages that say they fix a CVE -
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID (http://cve.mitre.org/about/), Eg.
CVE-2201-0123.

--bugfix
This option includes in updates packages that say they fix a bugfix
issue.

--sec-severity=SEVS, --secseverity=SEVS
This option includes in updates security relevant packages of the
specified severity.

LIST OPTIONS
The following are the ways which you can invoke yum in list mode. Note that
all list commands include information on the version of the package.

OUTPUT

The format of the output of yum list is:

name.arch [epoch:]version-release repo or @installed-from-repo

Note that if the repo cannot be determined, "installed" is printed

instead.

yum list [all | glob_exp1] [glob_exp2] [...]

 List all available and installed packages.

yum list available [glob_exp1] [...]

List all packages in the yum repositories available to be installed.

yum list updates [glob_exp1] [...]

List all packages with updates available in the yum repositories.

yum list installed [glob_exp1] [...]

List the packages specified by args. If an argument does not match
the name of an available package, it is assumed to be a shell-style glob and any
matches are printed.

yum list extras [glob_exp1] [...]

List the packages installed on the system that are not available in
any yum repository listed in the config file.

yum list distro-extras [glob_exp1] [...]

List the packages installed on the system that are not available, by
name, in any yum repository listed in the config file.

yum list obsoletes [glob_exp1] [...]

List the packages installed on the system that are obsoleted by
packages in any yum repository listed in the config file.

yum list recent

List packages recently added into the repositories. This is often not
helpful, but what you may really want to use is "yum list-updateinfo new" from
the security yum plugin.

SPECIFYING PACKAGE NAMES

A package can be referred to for install, update, remove, list, info etc
with any of the following as well as globs of any of the following:

name
name.arch
name-ver
name-ver-rel
name-ver-rel.arch
name-epoch:ver-rel.arch
epoch:name-ver-rel.arch

For example: yum remove kernel-2.4.1-10.i686

this will remove this specific kernel-ver-rel.arch.

Or: yum list available 'foo*'

will list all available packages that match 'foo*'. (The single
quotes will keep your shell from expanding the globs.)

CLEAN OPTIONS
The following are the ways which you can invoke yum in clean mode.

Note that these commands only operate on files in currently enabled

repositories. If you use substitution variables (such as $releasever) in your
cachedir
configuration, the operation is further restricted to the current values of
those variables.

For fine-grained control over what is being cleaned, you can use
--enablerepo, --disablerepo and --releasever as desired. Note, however, that you
cannot
use --releasever='*' to do the cleaning for all values previously used.
Also note that untracked (no longer configured) repositories will not be automati‐
cally cleaned.

To purge the entire cache in one go, the easiest way is to delete the files
manually. Depending on your cachedir configuration, this usually means treating
any variables as shell wildcards and recursively removing matching
directories. For example, if your cachedir is /var/cache/yum/$basearch/
$releasever, then
the whole /var/cache/yum directory has to be removed. If you do this, yum
will rebuild the cache as required the next time it is run (this may take a
while).

As a convenience, when you run yum clean all, a recursive lookup will be
done to detect any repositories not cleaned due to the above restrictions. If some
are found, a message will be printed stating how much disk space they occupy
and thus how much you can reclaim by cleaning them. If you also supply --ver‐
bose, a more detailed breakdown will be printed.

yum clean expire-cache

Eliminate the local data saying when the metadata and mirrorlists
were downloaded for each repo. This means yum will revalidate the cache for each
repo. next time it is used. However if the cache is still valid,
nothing significant was deleted.

yum clean packages

Eliminate any cached packages from the system. Note that packages
are not automatically deleted after they are downloaded.

yum clean headers

Eliminate all of the header files, which old versions of yum used for
dependency resolution.

yum clean metadata

Eliminate all of the files which yum uses to determine the remote
availability of packages. Using this option will force yum to download all the
metadata the next time it is run.

yum clean dbcache

Eliminate the sqlite cache used for faster access to metadata.
Using this option will force yum to download the sqlite metadata the next time it
is
run, or recreate the sqlite metadata if using an older repo.

yum clean rpmdb

Eliminate any cached data from the local rpmdb.

yum clean plugins

Tell any enabled plugins to eliminate their cached data.
 yum clean all
Does all of the above.

EXAMPLES
To list all updates that are security relevant, and get a return code on
whether there are security updates use:

yum --security check-update

To upgrade packages that have security errata (upgrades to the latest

available package) use:

yum --security update

To upgrade packages that have security errata (upgrades to the last security
errata package) use:

yum --security update-minimal

To get a list of all BZs that are fixed for packages you have installed use:

yum updateinfo list bugzillas

To get a list of all security advisories, including the ones you have
already installed use:

yum updateinfo list all security

To get the information on advisory FEDORA-2707-4567 use:

yum updateinfo info FEDORA-2707-4567

For Red Hat advisories, respin suffixes are also accepted in the ID,
although they won't have any effect on the actual respin selected by yum, as it
will
always select the latest one available. For example, if you use:

yum updateinfo info RHSA-2016:1234-2

while RHSA-2016:1234-3 has been shipped already, yum will select the
latter (provided your updateinfo.xml is current). The same would happen if you
just
specified RHSA-2016:1234. That said, there's no need for you to specify or
care about the suffix at all.

To update packages to the latest version which contain fixes for Bugzillas
123, 456 and 789; and all security updates use:

yum --bz 123 --bz 456 --bz 789 --security update

To update to the packages which just update Bugzillas 123, 456 and 789; and
all security updates use:

yum --bz 123 --bz 456 --bz 789 --security update-minimal

To get an info list of the latest packages which contain fixes for
Bugzilla 123; CVEs CVE-2207-0123 and CVE-2207-3210; and Fedora advisories
 FEDORA-2707-4567 and FEDORA-2707-7654 use:

yum --bz 123 --cve CVE-2207-0123 --cve CVE-2207-3210 --advisory

FEDORA-2707-4567 --advisory FEDORA-2707-7654 info updates

To get a list of packages which are "new".

yum updateinfo list new

To get a summary of advisories you haven't installed yet use:

yum updateinfo summary

PLUGINS
Yum can be extended through the use of plugins. A plugin is a Python
".py" file which is installed in one of the directories specified by the pluginpath
option in yum.conf. For a plugin to work, the following conditions must be
met:

1. The plugin module file must be installed in the plugin path as just
described.

2. The global plugins option in /etc/yum.conf must be set to `1'.

3. A configuration file for the plugin must exist in

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/<plugin_name>.conf and the enabled setting in this file must
set to `1'. The min‐
imal content for such a configuration file is:

[main]
enabled = 1

See the yum.conf(5) man page for more information on plugin related
configuration options.

FILES
/etc/yum.conf
/etc/yum/version-groups.conf
/etc/yum.repos.d/
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/
/var/cache/yum/

SEE ALSO
pkcon (1)
yum.conf (5)
yum-updatesd (8)
package-cleanup (1)
repoquery (1)
yum-complete-transaction (1)
yumdownloader (1)
yum-utils (1)
yum-langpacks (1)
http://yum.baseurl.org/
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq
yum search yum
AUTHORS
See the Authors file included with this program.

BUGS
There of course aren't any bugs, but if you find any, you should
first consult the FAQ mentioned above and then email the mailing list:
yum@lists.baseurl.org or filed in bugzilla.

Seth Vidal
yum(8)