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Debian's apt-get update fetches and updates the package index. Because I'm used to this way of doing things, I was surprised to find that yum update does all that and upgrades the system. This made me curious of how to update the package index without installing anything.

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The check-update command will refresh the package index and check for available updates:

yum check-update
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While "yum check-update" will refresh the local cache, if it needs to be refreshed, so will most other commands.

The command that's strictly the equivalent of "apt-get update" is "yum makecache" ... however it's generally not recommended to run that directly, in yum.

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I don't understand the first sentence. Can you rephrase maybe? – Tshepang Feb 8 '11 at 18:06
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It means that other yum commands, e.g. yum upgrade will automatically run yum check-update if necessary. In other words, yum upgrade is basically the same as apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. – Mikel Feb 8 '11 at 21:02

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