The package we are interested in is the one in bold, let’s install it using the yum install command: ~]$ yum install httpd

Mod_ssl.x86_64 : SSL/TLS module for the Apache HTTP Server Mod_session.x86_64 : Session interface for the Apache HTTP Server

Mod_security.x86_64 : Security module for the Apache HTTP Server Mod_revocator.i686 : CRL retrieval module for the Apache HTTP server Mod_revocator.x86_64 : CRL retrieval module for the Apache HTTP server Mod_proxy_html.x86_64 : HTML and XML content filters for the Apache HTTP Server Mod_nss.x86_64 : SSL/TLS module for the Apache HTTP server Mod_md.x86_64 : Certificate provisioning using ACME for the Apache HTTP Server Mod_ldap.x86_64 : LDAP authentication modules for the Apache HTTP Server Mod_dav_svn.x86_64 : Apache httpd module for Subversion server Mod_auth_openidc.x86_64 : OpenID Connect auth module for Apache HTTP Server

Mod_auth_mellon.x86_64 : A SAML 2.0 authentication module for the Apache Httpd Server Httpd-tools.x86_64 : Tools for use with the Apache HTTP Server Httpd-manual.noarch : Documentation for the Apache HTTP Server Httpd-filesystem.noarch : The basic directory layout for the Apache HTTP Server Httpd-devel.x86_64 : Development interfaces for the Apache HTTP Server Loaded plugins: extras_suggestions, langpacks, priorities, update-motd Let’s say we want to install an Apache HTTP Server on our Linux machine…įirst of all, we will use the yum search command to see the packages available for the Apache HTTP Server.

Install a package on your system from a repository.

Search for packages that match a specific term.

Some of the things you can use yum for are: The packages you can install via yum are available on remote repositories that can be queried using the yum command. The way it works is consistent across those Linux distributions, so this tutorial won’t refer specifically to any of the three distributions. It’s not only used on Red Hat but also on CentOs and Fedora. Yum is the main tool used on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution to manage software packages.

Sudo yum