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RHCSA 8 - CH09
Managing Software
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Computer Science
Undergraduate 3
01/01/2022

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Term
application profile
Definition
A collection of packages that may be used to install a specific version of software, according to a specific installation profile.
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application stream
Definition
A specific version of a Yum module that can be installed as such.
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dependency (RPM)
Definition
is a software package that needs to be present for another package to be installed.
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dependency hell
Definition
Situation where for package installation, other packages are needed, which by themselves could require dependencies as well.
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module
Definition
A collection of software packages that can be managed as one entity and can contain different versions of a software solution.
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package
Definition
A bundle that is used to distribute software.
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package groups
Definition
A group of packages that can be installed as such using the yum groups install command.
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Red Hat Network (RHN)
Definition
Family of systems-management services operated by Red Hat
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repository
Definition
An installation source that contains installable packages and an index that contains information about the installable packages so that the installation program Yum can compare the version of packages currently installed with the version of packages available in the repository.
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Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)
Definition
The name for the package format that is used on RHEL for software packages and for the Package Management software.
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Yellowdog Update, Modified (yum)
Definition
the meta package handler that on RHEL 8 is used to install packages from yum repositories.
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