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Yellowdog Updater

free and open-source command-line package management utility for Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS
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Yellowdog Updater
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Yellowdog Updater

Summary

Yellowdog Updater is a package manager[1]. It draws 95 Wikipedia views per month (package_manager category, ranking #3 of 15).[2]

Key Facts

  • Yellowdog Updater's image is recorded as Yum-update.png[3].
  • Yellowdog Updater's instance of is recorded as package manager[4].
  • Yellowdog Updater's instance of is recorded as free software[5].
  • Yellowdog Updater's logo image is recorded as Yum.png[6].
  • Yellowdog Updater's developer is recorded as James Antill[7].
  • Yellowdog Updater's developer is recorded as Seth Vidal[8].
  • Yellowdog Updater's copyright license is recorded as GNU General Public License, version 2.0[9].
  • Yellowdog Updater's programmed in is recorded as Python[10].
  • Yellowdog Updater's operating system is recorded as Fedora Linux[11].
  • Yellowdog Updater's operating system is recorded as Q215273[12].
  • Yellowdog Updater's operating system is recorded as CentOS[13].
  • Yellowdog Updater's operating system is recorded as Yellow Dog Linux[14].
  • Yellowdog Updater's software version identifier is recorded as 3.4.3[15].
  • Yellowdog Updater's has use is recorded as package manager[16].
  • Yellowdog Updater's Commons category is recorded as Yum[17].
  • Yellowdog Updater's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01qhl0[18].
  • Yellowdog Updater's official website is recorded as http://yum.baseurl.org/[19].
  • Yellowdog Updater's source code repository URL is recorded as http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb/[20].
  • Yellowdog Updater's source code repository URL is recorded as https://github.com/rpm-software-management/yum[21].
  • Yellowdog Updater's replaced by is recorded as DNF[22].
  • Yellowdog Updater's Debian stable package is recorded as yum[23].
  • Yellowdog Updater's Fedora package is recorded as yum[24].
  • Yellowdog Updater's Ubuntu package is recorded as yum[25].
  • Yellowdog Updater's AUR package is recorded as yum[26].
  • Yellowdog Updater's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[27].

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Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include package manager[4] and free software[5].

Why It Matters

Yellowdog Updater draws 95 Wikipedia views per month (package_manager category, ranking #3 of 15).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

CentOS Fedora Linux free software Loongnix Oracle Linux Python Yanux Yellow Dog Linux

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . yum.baseurl.org. Retrieved . yum.baseurl.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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