Yum in CentOS?what is it?

[shreesh]

Hi guys ,i was trying to install samba in my centos,did a bit of googling when it said about using the "yum install samba" command? what is a yum?

[oz]

Hello

Yum is a package tool for installing/removing software in a number of distros, including CentOS.

More on it here:

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/

[NixSavy]

u can install packages using rpm command or using yum command.
difference in yum - helps reduce administrative task as it itself resolve dependency issue while installing a package

[meton_magis]

You can get information for pretty much any command that you're unfamiliar with from the man pages.
use

 man command_name

to pull up the information.