Package management tools

Learn about the package management tools for RHEL, SLES, and Ubuntu.

Package management tools

  • For RHEL 7 and RHEL 8, you can use the YUM package management tool and for RHEL 9, you can either use YUM or DNF package management tool.

    Note: Provide the .repo configuration file for YUM and DNF before the installation.

    The configuration file for YUM and related utilities is located in /etc/yum.conf

  • For SLES 12 and SLES 15, you can use the zypper package management tool.

  • For Ubuntu 20, you can use apt get install tool. The configuration file for the Debian package is called .list. The .list files contain configuration details for the Debian repository.