On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Jim Green wrote: > Dear Centos community, I am new to centos/redhat and I would like to > know on a centos system, can I use yum alone to do all package > management? I don't want to learn two systems and confuse myself, I > understand yum is much better than rpm if is the case? yum is simply a layer built on top of rpm. it's nice if you can do everything you want with yum, but it doesn't hurt to learn the basics of rpm anyway. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================