On 13 February 2010 10:13, Ron Loftin <reloftin at twcny.rr.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 10:00 -0600, 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? > > I expect that you will get a bunch of replies on this. > > The short form is that yum lives on TOP of RPM. It is not a replacement > for RPM. > > Yum does most of the thinking for you as far as dependency management. > It is much more user-friendly, and is the preferred mechanism for > software installation and maintenance because it does the dependency > resolution for you, and saves much in the way of headaches, elevated > stress, confusion, and RSI from excessive keyboard use. > > All that being said, there are times when you do want to use RPM by > itself, without Yum. If you stay with CentOS and/or RedHat long enough, > you will run across this situation now and then. Thank Robert and Ron, Could you list an example where I need to use rpm command alone? I used rpm to install stand alone package if that is the case. Jim