Yum
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Yum is Yellowdog Updater, Modified, a tool for managing Red Hat RPM packages.
To install a particular RPM on the XO, type in a terminal
yum install {package name}
For more on yum, type
man yum
or
info yum
on any Red Hat or related Linux system that uses yum.
To save space, OLPC OS builds for the XO are configured to not extract documentation from rpm packages to the file system. If there is a specific package for which you might want this overturned, edit the file:
/etc/rpm/macros.pilgrim
and change the line:
%_excludedocs 1
to:
%_excludedocs 0
before installing it. Remember to switch it back after you are done.
