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Thursday, 9 August 2018

How to check available yum packages?

e.g. install/update ansible by yum

-> Go to repo path

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

-> Add source paths into repo file to be able to install ansible

# vi epel.repo
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/$basearch
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7

[epel-debuginfo]

name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/$basearch/debug
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-debug-7&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7
gpgcheck=1

[epel-source]

name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch - Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/SRPMS
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-7&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7
gpgcheck=1

-> Search yum package
yum search ansible

-> Check available yum package
# yum list available | grep ansible

-> Check available all yum packages with its duplicates
yum list available --showduplicates | grep ansible

-> Install ansible 
# yum install ansible

-> Download only yum package
yum install ansible --downloadonly --downloaddir=/root

-> Check available yum packages for upgrade
yum check-updates | grep ansible

-> Update ansible

yum update ansible

-> Check yum history
yum history list