Equivalent in yum of apt-get update
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Most yum commands will refresh the cache automatically if needed. It works differently than apt, which will not update its cache unless the update command is run
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sffc
Updated on June 14, 2022Comments
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sffc almost 2 years
In Debian derivatives, before installing software from apt using
apt-get install xxx
, it is necessary to runapt-get update
. This refreshes the package lists so that dependencies are resolved correctly, etc.When using an RHEL instance, out of habit, I ran
yum update
before installing software. However, this was only to find thatyum update
upgraded all of my packages instead of, or possibly in addition to, updating package lists locally as inapt-get update
.Is it necessary to update yum's package lists before running
yum install xxx
? If so, how do you do it?-
Mike Lentini over 11 yearsProbably better suited for superuser.com
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