Dell System Update Version 1.3 User’s Guide

Yum is an open source command line package management utility used for Linux operating systems. Yum primarily helps to do automatic updates, package and dependency management, mainly for RedHat Package Manager (RPM) based distributions. Yum has a command line interface and it is implemented in the Python programming language. Yum is mostly used to update and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. Yum has a great informational output and syntax.

Zypper is used for installing, removing, updating, and querying software packages of local and remote networked media. It has been extensively used for the openSUSE operating systems. It is a package management engine that powers Linux applications like Yet another Setup Tool (YaST). Zypper can download several update packages, and install them at once. Zypper is one of the fastest and powerful package manager for the Linux environment.