Yum

Proper Noun · Open Source

Definitions

  1. A package manager historically used in RPM-based Linux distributions for installing, updating, and removing software. In Linux operations culture, yum remains familiar shorthand even where newer tooling has replaced or wrapped parts of its workflow.

    In plain English: A package manager used in many RPM-based Linux systems.

    Example: "The install notes still mentioned yum because several customer environments had not yet moved to the newer default package-management commands."

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