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Running Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Recent major enhancements to Anaconda have come with recent releases of Fedora. In particular,
Anaconda now incorporates the yum facility for gathering, downloading, and installing packages.
During initial installation, you can add multiple yum-enabled Fedora software repositories to
install software from those repositories.
You??™ll find a detailed description of installing Fedora using the Anaconda installer at the end of this
chapter.
RPM Package Management
All Red Hat and Fedora distributions use the RPM Package Management (RPM) software packaging
format to store and maintain software. Fedora and RHEL contain a set of tools for installing,
upgrading, maintaining, and querying software packages in RPM format. Essentially, the RPM software
packages that are installed are maintained in a database, so you can list the contents of packages,
view descriptions, and even check for tampering of the files in those packages.
Using RPM, add-on software can also be easily included in and maintained for Fedora systems. So
users who once had to know how to deal with tarballs and makefiles to compile their own software
can now simply install an RPM package to get the features they want. With other Linux distributions
(such as SUSE and Mandrake) also using RPM packaging, your RPM tool skills can help you
manage software on those distributions as well.
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