How to fix “another app is currently holding the yum lock” error.If you get any error for yum repolist output, then you should check one of the follow articles depending upon your environment Rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs) 4,777ĪLSO READ: Fix 'there are no enabled repos' & create local repository in RHEL 7 & 8 Rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) 10,638 *epel-modular Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 0

*epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 5,546 Last metadata expiration check: 0:34:45 ago on Sat 03:35:19 PM IST. Updating Subscription Management repositories.

You should get a valid list or repositories available and enabled from this ~]# yum repolist.

You can use yum repolist to list the available repositories.

To use yum it is mandatory that your repositories are properly configured.

If you know what you are doing, you can directly skip to chapter: YUM install specific version of rpm from this article. 1 root root 5 /usr/bin/dnf -> dnf-3Īlthough actually it is single step to yum install specific version of rpm but there are certain pre-requisites which may be good for a newbie to understand the process. 1 root root 5 /usr/bin/yum -> ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/dnf In this article although I would use YUM install specific version of rpm but in the backend YUM is using DNF in my RHEL 8 environment ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/yum

We will cover below topics in this article: Now the world is moving towards DNF which has lot more features compared to YUM YUM is a package manager used with Red Hat, CentOS and many other distributions.

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