Ask The Open Source Expert: YUM vs. RPM

The main problem with straightforward use of the RPM tool is this: The package you have at hand may depend on other packages that you don’t have at hand. Plain RPM doesn’t help you with this problem beyond reporting that specific dependancies exist. You have to go and fetch those other packages yourself. YUM should be able to drag down everything.

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