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Now that you have understood what package managers are, let’s go and look at 2 main types of distros

If you haven’t already, go ahead and read that article and come back to this one! The package manager’s duty in a Linux system is to manage the installing, removing, upgrading and downgrading the software packages.Ī Beginners Introduction To Linux Package managers: apt, yum, dpkg & rpm To understand this we must first address the question “what are package managers?” So let’s see that first and then come back to this question. List of Distros that use Yum or DNFīut why do all these distros use yum/dnf and more importantly why do others don’t? Let’s address these questions in the coming sections! Why do all these distros use Yum or DNF? Let’s go ahead and look at a list of Linux Distros that use the yum or dnf commands. When I started my distro-hopping journey experimenting with various Linux distros, I noticed a pattern where one set of distros used dnf or yum commands while the other set of distros used the apt command to install software on my system.