Yum repositories

Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, and rpm-based Linux distributions use the yum command in order to manage packages. Even the dnf command is provided as the next version of the yum command the yum command is popularly used too.

As a package manager packages are stored in repositories to download, install and update. The yum command provides the “yum repolist” command to list repositories.

Yum enable repo

In this tutorial, we will examine how to list yum repositories, enabled repositories, disabled repositories.

yum repolist all- List All Installed Repositories

The “yum repolist all” command list all installed repositories.

These repositories are currently enabled and disabled repositories. We can see that also the status column is listed which shows the repository status whether it is enabled or disabled.

yum repolist – List Enabled Repositories

The “yum repolist” command can be used to list installed and enabled repositories.

Repositories can be installed but not enabled for different reasons like duplicate packages, different packages providers etc.

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yum list repository content

yum show repo content