Get the best out of yum with yum-fastestmirror, yumex, & yum-utils
Monday, March 10th, 2008
With yum, “Dependency Hell” is pretty much a thing of the past. Yum acts as a front end to rpm by automatically downloading all necessary dependencies for you (assuming it can find them) and then installs each of the dependencies in the correct order, followed by your desired program. yum does this by looking for programs and dependencies within central repositories (or through repository mirrors) such as the Fedora and Livna repositores. Secondary repository sources can also be added from other locations by creating an appropriate .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/.
But even though yum is a powerful application there are applications we can add onto it to make it even more powerful.