My understanding is that yum, and the rpm system, is only useful on distributions such as Red Hat, Fedora and CentOS. I thought that Ubuntu, as a Debian based system, had no use for yum.
So I was surprised to find yum in the (universe section of) the official Ubuntu repositories.
When would yum be of use to an Ubuntu user?
3 Answers
Yum is for RPM packages. RPM is not the preferred installation method in Ubuntu. The equivalent to Yum would be APT and dpkg. Yum is not a preferred way to update an Ubuntu system.
To install it, you can do so from USC, or from terminal:
sudo apt-get install yumI don't think you would have a use for it, since there are equivalent Commands in Ubuntu. See the Table of Equivalent Commands
I would think that it can be used as a backup, if for some reason normal command won't work.
3The primary use case for yum in Ubuntu is if a third-party application has its own yum repository, and no apt repository. Then it will sometimes work to install yum, enable the vendor/project repository for that software, and install the software.
It is needed to create come types of LXC Containers, for example, those based on CentOS.
