Install and Update Software Packages

Question 1

What does Red Hat Subscription Management provide?

Answer 1

Tools to entitle machines to product subscriptions, get updates to software packages, and track information about support contracts and subscriptions that the systems use.

Question 2

How is software provided?

Answer 2

As an RPM package, to install, upgrade, and uninstall softwre on the system.

Question 3

What does the rpm command do?

Answer 3

Queries a local database to provide information about the contents of installed packages and to install downloaded package files.

Question 4

What is the dnf utility?

Answer 4

A powerful command-line tool to install, update, remove, and query software packages.

Question 5

What does Red Hat Enterprise Linux use Application Streams for?

Answer 5

To provide a single repository to host multiple versions of an application’s packages and its dependencies.