The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (YUM) is an open-source command-line package-management utility for RPM-compatible Linux operating systems and has been released under the GNU General Public License. Though yum has a command-line interface, several other tools provide graphical user interfaces to yum ...
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Download 64-bit rpm package on 32-bit machine
I want to download some rpm packages from a rpmforge repo. My base machine is running CentOS 32 bit and I want to download some 64-bit packages.
Is there any way in which we can configure YUM on a ...
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how to make yum tolerant of broken repo URLs
I have a number of CentOS instances, some of which have been used by developers and have 3rd party repos (sometimes their own) enabled. However from an administrative point of view it is handy to be ...
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Can you reconfigure roles specified during installation in CentOS?
During installation of a couple of CentOS servers I selected the "Server" option in the package configuration screen at the end of the installation process.
It turns out that I only needed a clean ...
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Erlang install error on Fedora 13
I am attempting to install RabbitMQ on a Fedora 13 box. This requires Erlang is installed. When I run yum install erlang I get the following messages. Yum seems to indicate that it resolved all the ...
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Remove All Repositories - CentOS (Can't Download Normal Stuff Anymore)
Any time I do yum install ___, what used to be normally accessible is no longer so.
I think it is because of an installed repository causing the issue.
How do I remove all repositories?
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Why is my RHEL6 x86_64 server trying to install libselinux.i686?
Just did a fresh install using the RHEL 6 DVD on a test VirtualBox server:
[root@bt-rhel6-1 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)
I am certain it's an ...
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How can I tell what rpms are managed outside of yum?
I am inheriting a Centos 5 box and I'd like to get an idea of what rpms have been installed outside of yum.
Bonus: How can I audit that RPMs installed with yum to make sure that they are not ...
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Installing mod_ssl on CentOS
I am trying to install mod_ssl on my server with:
yum install mod_ssl
All i get in response is:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: ...
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Error in Fedora 9 while installing MySQL 5.5.20 using “YUM” Command
I am trying to install the latest version of MySQL server on a Fedora 9 machine. When I run the command yum --enablerepo=remi list mysql mysql-server, I get the error:
Loaded plugins: ...
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Can I set up Fedora or Centos repos in RHEL6?
I have a RHEL6 box with no subscription to Red Hat Network. I want to install gcc using yum to resolve all the complex dependencies. Can I connect to Fedora or Centos repositories to install software? ...
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How to upgrade PHP to 5.3 and add in modules on CentOS 5.7 64-bit?
I've removed php5.1 using
yum remove php\*
I've installed php5.3 using
yum install php53
Now I need to make sure that certain supporting packages are installed. So I tried this:
yum install ...
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How to quickly remove a set of outdated packages?
I have a newly installed CentOS 5.7 machine and mistakenly installed PHP 5.1 when I needed 5.2+.
Now I cannot seem to install PHP 5.3 (using "yum install php53") until I remove PHP 5.1.
I found this ...
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Why are outdated packages installed by yum on CentOS? (specifically PHP 5.1) How to fix?
I'm working on a fresh CentOS server and am extremely annoyed to find out that yum does not work as smoothly and brilliantly as "apt-get install" does on Ubuntu.
Installing a LAMP stack, I ran the ...
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Linux Server eating all my memory [closed]
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Linux Server eating all my memory
I run all of my websites on a 512MB dedicated virtual server, which up until now has served me very well.
On 10 Jan, for some unknown ...
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Linux Server eating all my memory
I run all of my websites on a 512MB dedicated virtual server, which up until now has served me very well.
On 10 Jan, for some unknown reason my memory consumption went up from averaging around 50% to ...
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how to add(and install) java openjdk repository to your yum fedora?
executing this command - yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk
yields - No package java-1.7.0-openjdk available.
That's because i don't have the repo - but im a little clueless as to where, and how to add ...
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Installing MySQL on CentOS
I have set up a nginx server running php-fpm and everything is working great. PHP is compiled with the mysql and mysqli extensions, but I'm having trouble installing MySQL. I did this command:
yum ...
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Install packages through yum from file
Is there any way to install packages through yum from a file?
Something like:
yum -f packages.txt
I couldn't find anything in the man pages.
packages.txt would contain something like:
bash
bc
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How to upgrade Apache from 2.2.3 to 2.2.21
Using YUM I installed apache. Installed apache version is 2.2.3
Our security guy wants that we use 2.2.21 apache
When I try yum update 'httpd' nothing happens - No Packages marked for Update
I ...
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Unable to install Kerberos libriaries using $ rpm -ivf krb5-libs-1.8.4-3.fc14.x86_64.rpm
My Linux version is as follows:Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)
My rpm version is 4.4.2.3
when I am trying ti run uname -a ,the output i sas follows:
Linux ...
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CentOS / RHEL equivalent to packages.debian.org [closed]
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What is the equivalent of packages.debian.org for CentOS?
When I want to search for packages for my Debian box I use
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
It has a ...
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Enabling apt-get on a default Amazon EC2 instance which has yum installed
I'd like to call something like:
sudo yum install apt
to enable me to use apt-get as well as yum for installation.
However this doesn't work. I get the following back:
Loaded plugins: ...
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Install Xvfb via yum - yum repository for Xvfb?
I am trying to install Xvfb on a RHEL 6.2 system using yum. However, all of the help that I've found says to type:
yum install Xvfb
or...
yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb
Which I'm sure ...
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On CentOS how do I get boost header files installed?
What CentOS 6 package name do I need to install boost header files:
yum install boost doesn't seem to work. Is there a special compiler directive I need to use to point to the include files? Or is ...
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Installing Python 2.7 broke “yum”
I installed Python 2.7 and pointed /usr/bin/python to /usr/local/bin/python2.7
After installing Python 2.7, I get the following error message every time I use yum
> sudo yum install setuptools
...
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upgrade to nginx 1.0 on Amazon Linux EC2 Instance
I've noticed that the official Amazon repos only host nginx 0.8 which is now considered a legacy release. Short of manually compiling from source what must I do to upgrade to the stable 1.0 version of ...
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Best practice for automated Linux updates
We are working on a way to perform automatic updates for our RHEL/RHEL-based servers.
Initial idea: Using Puppet, we disable the default repositories and point to our own. Then, we use ensure => ...
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Updating OpenSSH to latest stable version via yum
I am running CentOS 5.7 and need to upgrade OpenSSH to the latest stable version (PCI compliance issues). However, the most recent version available via the CentOS yum repository is 4.3p2. How can I ...
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Failed Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.15 as part of Sphinx Install
I'm running CentOS 5.7 and trying to install Sphinx Search but keep receiving missing dependency errors.
$ yum install sphinx
...
Error: Missing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.15 is needed by package ...
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How to install Mysql 5.1 on Fedora 16
I can't seem to install MySQL 5.1 on Fedora 16. When I try to install an RPM downloaded from the MySQL website I get conflict errors with the existing 5.5 packages which I have already 'removed' via ...
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Is it possible to just update Java through YUM on a licensed RHEL5?
RHEL 5.6 64 bit running:
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_27-b07)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.2-b06, mixed mode)
Can I update this with the latest build 29 using yum?
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Selectively install package from centosplus
How can I selectively install a package from the centosplus repository in CentOS 6.0? If I enable that repo and run a yum update, it would install other packages (newer kernels etc.) too. I just need ...
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PHP upgraded to 5.3.8 - Can't install/upgrade extensions
I managed to upgrade php from 5.2.10 to 5.3.8 in CentOS 5.4. Some of the extensions were lost in the process (mbstring, mysql).
One quick run for:
yum list installed | grep php
Returns:
...
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Error when trying to update postgresql-libs
When I do a yum update I get the following errors:
Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/lib64/libecpg.so.6.1 from install of postgresql-libs-8.4.10-1PGDG.rhel5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package ...
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How to install package with yum without updating?
I want to install some packages from repository but always when I'm trying to yum install packagename yum updates db:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Determining ...
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How to undo “yum remove python”
I have a Centos 6 based VPS with an ssh connection. Recently wanting to install python 2.7.2, I bravely ran:
yum remove python
wich apparently removed yum itself being written or depends on python.
...
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Red Hat Yum not working out of the box?
I have a server runnning Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5.6 in the cloud. My project constraints do not allow me to use another OS.
When I created the cloud server, I was able to SSH into it and access ...
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Yum update on LAMP
When I do a yum check-update on my server I get packages like php which I haven't dared to update.
I'm wondering whether it would be safe to update these on my production server (I do have a backup ...
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How to add GD to a PHP 5.3 CentOS installation from a different repo?
I installed PHP 5.3 on a CentOS 5.3 using yum and repos from Webtatic (http://www.webtatic.com/packages/php53/) and now I'd like to add the GD library to that installation but Webtatic seems to be ...
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Build RPM from DRPM on Fedora Linux
I am creating a private Fedora Linux mirror (os & updates repositories of RPMS and DRPMS). Of course, I'm doing that using rsync and everything is working well... except that I'm using a very slow ...
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Yum update info from what version, to what version
Is there some simple yum command so I can know what is current and what is future version of package for updating.
I now about:
yum list updates
But that only prints new version of packages...
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mrepo and grouplist/groupinstall?, mrepo not working as expected with group
All,
I'm trying to set up mrepo so we can have internal repositories. After quite the slog, things seem to be working as expected EXCEPT for groups.
From man createrepo:
EXAMPLES
Here is an example ...
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Upgrade Subversion 1.6 to 1.7 on CentOS? (can't find yum repository)
I want to upgrade my SVN Server from 1.6 to 1.7. Unfortunately I can't find anything on the internet how to do this with yum. I have checked rpmforge-extras but it has only svn 1.6 and not 1.7
I ...
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install vncserver without yum on Oracle Linux
can anybody describe me how to install vncserver on Oracle Linux without yum?
(yum does not work because it is a pre-built appliance - timeouts all the time)
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Best way to clean up Yum repository?
We have a custom Yum repo that our developers upload builds to.
The problem is that after some time it becomes cluttered with old versions.
Removing the old versions manually is quite annoying, so ...
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DBD::Pg fails to initialize after yum updated libnss3
After yum updated openldap and libnss, a Perl webapp that used DBD::Pg stopped working, with the following error in the logs:
Fri Nov 04 00:57:04 2011] [error] install_driver(Pg) failed:
Can't load ...
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yum update dependency error (already installed)
i'm facing the following error:
Transaction Check Error:
package apr-1.3.12-1.jason.1.x86_64 (which is newer than apr-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.cloudlinux.2.i386) is already installed
This is on cloudlinux. ...
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Using Yum to deploy web application on different machines
I want to deploy application on different machine with Yum. According to my learning I have to create yum repository and package of application. But I cannot find relationship between package and ...
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Fixing problems with yum, urllib2, and missing dependencies?
I've been trying to resolve the following problem with yum / python's urllib2:
[root@...]# yum
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 4, in ?
import yum
File ...
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Can't install PHP and MySQL on CentOS 5 64 Bits
I'm getting the following error when trying to install PHP and MySQL form the atomicorp.com repository:
[root@x171 ~]# yum -y install mysql-libs php php-gd gd mysql mysql-server mysql-devel ...
