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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Yum Extender Application manager for centos

Yum Extender is available as a part of the CentOS Extras repository of CentOS 4. Install Yum Extender by typing the following command as root:
yum install yumex

Starting and using Yum Extender

After installing Yum Extender, you can access the software by clicking on the CentOS menu then navigating to System Tools. There you should see a menu item for Yum Extender. After selecting this menu item, you will be prompted to enter the root password. Yum Extender will start and will scan available repositories and installed packages. It will develop a list of packages that need updating, packages available for install, and packages available for removal.
There is a row of Buttons on the left side of Yum Extender to control the section of the program you will enter. Yum Extender starts in the Output Section. This section is where commands write their output.

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