System Updates and Repos

Question 1

Where is the configuration files/repos located for yum?

Answer 1

/etc/yum.repos.d/

Question 2

How can you install a package using rpm?

Answer 2

rpm -hiv ‘location of rpm’

Question 3

How can you uninstall a package with RPM?

Answer 3

rpm -e ‘package name’

Question 4

What is the command to get package info?

Answer 4

rpm -qi ‘package name’

Question 5

What is the command to list configuration files for a package?

Answer 5

rpm -qc ‘package name’

Question 6

How can you find out what package a command belongs to?

Answer 6

which: shows location of command
which pwd
output: /usr/bin/pwd
rpm -qf /usr/bin/pwd
output: belongs to core utils

Question 7

How can you create a new repo?

Answer 7

become root
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
vim file.repo

[BaseOS Repo]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
baseurl=repo url or file:///localrepo/

yum clean all
yum repolist all