After the Revolution. When Martha Ballard began her diary in 1785, the Revolutionary War had been over for just a year. The states, still a confederation and almost entirely agrarian, had a total population of under 4 million.
The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (YUM) is a libre and open-source command-line package-management utility for computers running the GNU/Linux operating system using the RPM Package Manager. Though YUM has a command-line interface, several other tools provide graphical user interfaces to YUM functionality.
The previous example showed the version of the installed curl package, and listed the repository the package was part of (in this case, rawhide-updates). It is somtimes useful to get a description of what a package is. This can be accomplished by passing a package name to the yum info option: