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List of yum commands in Fedora 19

Displayed version of yum:
$ yum --version 3.4.3
Installed: yum-3.4.3-95.fc19.noarch

Here is a list (incomplete because of missing documentation about autoremove)

List of Commands:

  • check Check for problems in the rpmdb
  • check-update Check for available package updates
  • clean Remove cached data
  • deplist List a package's dependencies
  • distribution-synchronization Synchronize installed packages to the latest available versions
  • downgrade downgrade a package
  • erase Remove a package or packages from your system
  • groups Display, or use, the groups information
  • help Display a helpful usage message
  • history Display, or use, the transaction history
  • info Display details about a package or group of packages
  • install Install a package or packages on your system
  • langinfo List languages information
  • langinstall Install appropriate language packs for a language
  • langlist List installed languages
  • langremove Remove installed language packs for a language
  • list List a package or groups of packages
  • load-transaction load a saved transaction from filename
  • makecache Generate the metadata cache
  • provides Find what package provides the given value
  • reinstall reinstall a package
  • repo-pkgs Treat a repo. as a group of packages, so we can install/remove all of them
  • repolist Display the configured software repositories
  • search Search package details for the given string
  • shell Run an interactive yum shell
  • swap Simple way to swap packages, instead of using shell
  • update Update a package or packages on your system
  • update-minimal Works like upgrade, but goes to the 'newest' package match which fixes a problem that affects your system
  • updateinfo Acts on repository update information
  • upgrade Update packages taking obsoletes into account
  • version Display a version for the machine and/or available repos.
Options:
  • -h, --help show this help message and exit
  • -t, --tolerant be tolerant of errors
  • -C, --cacheonly run entirely from system cache, don't update cache
  • -c [config file], --config=[config file] config file location
  • -R [minutes], --randomwait=[minutes] maximum command wait time
  • -d [debug level], --debuglevel=[debug level] debugging output level
  • --showduplicates show duplicates, in repos, in list/search commands
  • -e [error level], --errorlevel=[error level] error output level
  • --rpmverbosity=[debug level name] debugging output level for rpm
  • -q, --quiet quiet operation
  • -v, --verbose verbose operation
  • -y, --assumeyes answer yes for all questions
  • --assumeno answer no for all questions
  • --version show Yum version and exit
  • --installroot=[path] set install root
  • --enablerepo=[repo] enable one or more repositories (wildcards allowed)
  • --disablerepo=[repo] disable one or more repositories (wildcards allowed)
  • -x [package], --exclude=[package] exclude package(s) by name or glob
  • --disableexcludes=[repo] disable exclude from main, for a repo or for everything
  • --obsoletes enable obsoletes processing during updates
  • --noplugins disable Yum plugins
  • --nogpgcheck disable gpg signature checking
  • --disableplugin=[plugin] disable plugins by name
  • --enableplugin=[plugin] enable plugins by name
  • --skip-broken skip packages with depsolving problems
  • --color=COLOR control whether color is used
  • --releasever=RELEASEVER set value of $releasever in yum config and repo files
  • --downloadonly don't update, just download
  • --downloaddir=DLDIR specifies an alternate directory to store packages
  • --setopt=SETOPTS set arbitrary config and repo options
  • --bugfix Include bugfix relevant packages, in updates
  • --security Include security relevant packages, in updates
  • --advisory=ADVS, --advisories=ADVS Include packages needed to fix the given advisory, in updates
  • --bzs=BZS Include packages needed to fix the given BZ, in updates
  • --cves=CVES Include packages needed to fix the given CVE, in updates
  • --sec-severity=SEVS, --secseverity=SEVS Include security relevant packages matching the severity, in updates
Note that yum can use distro-sync command rather than the longer distribution-synchronization.

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