Questions tagged [yum]
YUM is an open-source command-line package-management utility for RPM-compatible Linux operating systems.
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Installing a third party application package on CentOS 6.4 fails due to missing dependencies libcrypto.so.10 and libssl.so.10
This is a Canonical Question about OpenSSL binary compatibility issues between Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and its derivatives) 6.4 and 6.5.
This issue applies to a wide variety of third party ...
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How to know from which yum repository a package has been installed?
After I have installed a package by yum (with multiple repositories configured), how can I find from which repository it has been installed?
If I run yum info package-name (or yum list package-name), ...
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Automatically check for Security Updates on CentOS or Scientific Linux?
We have machines running RedHat-based distros such as CentOS or Scientific Linux. We want the systems to automatically notify us if there are any known vulnerabilities to the installed packages. ...
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Install libxml2 2.7.X on CentOS 5.X
CentOS ships with libxml2-2.6.26. I have to install at least 2.7.X version.
I downloaded RPMs for libxml2, libxml2-devel and libxml2-python (2.7.8) from XMLSOFT (http://xmlsoft.org/sources/).
I am ...
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Do old package versions in CentOS mean that they do not have security fixes?
We asked our admin to update SVN on our CentOS 6.5 server. He did so and the result was SVN 1.6.11. However the current version of SVN is 1.8.9.
I know the CentOS yum repository is not always up-to-...
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Update Red Hat Enterprise Linux's Packages Only To Specific Point Release
Let's say that I have one RHEL6.2 64bit server running. Current latest version available is 6.4. Running "yum update" will update my server up to 6.4 straight away. What if I want to update only to ...
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RHEL 6.3 Upgrading OpenSSH & Apache
We just ran an external security scan from 403Labs against one of our servers (RHEL 6.3 x86_64) for PCI compliance and the results appeared to mainly dictate that we had a hand full of applications ...
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Centos 6.6 yum issues with NTP update
Hi I'm having an issue with yum, I seem to have broken dependencies? I have a general knowledge of Linux but I'm not sure how to fix this. Running CentOS 6.6.
Here's the output from yum:
yum update
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How to find out yum package names
Recently I needed to install yum mbstring but because I have two different versions of PHP installed I needed to install mbstring for php 5.5. Through some random google searches I figured out to run:
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How do I upgrade to the latest PHP version in CentOS with yum?
I found some blog posts about this, but it's rather lack of descriptions on possible side effects.
I could really use some detailed on these steps:
How to add a repo that provides PHP 5.4 into yum
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yum " Segmentation fault" in centos
While using yum commands in a centos server(2.6.18-194.el5PAE #1), it throws 'Segmentation fault'.
[root@server2 ~]# yum check-update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading
mirror speeds from cached ...
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How can I keep the RHEL version static (e.g. RHEL 5.1)?
For compatibility with a program :
I need to keep one of our servers in a specific version, for example rhel 5.1
I would like to keep it as updated as possible, but not to change versions.
What ...
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tell yum to ignore a single dependency
I'm trying to install winswitch on CentOs 6. It requires nxagent. But in centos, the package name is nx. Is there a way to tell yum to skip checking the nxagent dependency (I installed nx already)? ...
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Upgrade cURL to latest on CentOS
I need to upgrade cURL to the latest version on Centos
2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.centos.plusxen #1 SMP Wed Mar 17 20:32:20 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I'm unable to find any suitable ...
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Why do I have .rpmnew file after an update?
I use yum to update my Fedora. After a huge update, I got many .rpmnew and .rpmsave files. I could understand if I had modified these files. But I'm sure that I didn't edit these files.
What should I ...
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Should I be worried that yum update suddenly wants to update well over 100 packages on my CentOS 6 system?
I get an email alert whenever there's something to update, and typically do them that day. This tends to happen most days.
For whatever reason I've had no alerts since 20th July until today (I ...
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Update PHP with yum on Amazon Linux
I have Amazon Linux on EC2, AMI 2013.09. I followed the LAMP install tutorial, http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/install-LAMP.html, and ended up with PHP5.3 installed.
In answer to ...
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Wget, Curl, Yum Fail but Ping works - CentOS 5
We currently have three webservers.
Servers one and two behave, but I'm having real problems with the third.
wget, curl and yum all fail to make their connections - that is, they all hang after ...
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Caching proxy for yum and debian repositories
Does a caching proxy for yum exist, similar to approx for Debian repositories?
Is there a way to have reprepro behave the same as approx? I have heard that approx was not as stable; besides, I would ...
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How do I prevent yum from updating a particular RPM?
For certain reasons I have to keep a slightly older version of a particular RPM installed on my box (Fedora 11). The problem is that every time I do a package update yum (or one of its GUI equivalents)...
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How do I migrate from RHEL 5 to CentOS 5?
I've found myself in charge of installing some software on an old server running RHEL 5. Unfortunately, since it's just a development server now, it no longer rates a license. I'd like to continue ...
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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 interpret this yum dependency error?
I'm trying to install XRDP and I'm hitting the following:
[root@box ~]# yum -y install xrdp
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos....
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CentOS - PHP - Yum Install with Custom ./configure params
I have successfully configured and compiled php on my dev server, and works great, but after talking to a sysadmin buddy, he informed that custom compiles of the latest builds are not recommended for ...
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Yum doesn't update httpd past version 2.2.3 on centos
I have a fresh CentOS vps (CentOS release 5.4 (Final)), and yum installs Apache/httpd version 2.2.3 but 2.2.14 is the latest release. Why doesn't yum install more recent updates?
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Puppet yum repo - Pull down 2.7.x vs 3.0.x
So a few weeks ago I started on the path to using puppet to automate all the configs/services. At the time I was using the EPEL repo, which installed version 2.6.x. After some reading I was trying to ...
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kernel-firmware is a duplicate with kernel-firmware Cent OS YUM
I am having isssues getting my server to run after yum update was interrupted. When trying to complete the yum update I am getting the following response.
[root@RESCUE-web yum.repos.d]# sudo yum ...
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bash stuck at 3.2-24.el5 (Redhat)
I'm trying to update bash on our Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 server.
But it won't find an update later than "3.2-24.el5".
I've check and it is vulnerable for the shellshock ...
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How to install yum on Fedora Core 6
I have searched in google but have found no result and have been unable to install it yet.
I want to install yum on fedora core 6 on my server to install ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php.
How can i install it ...
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Yum Update fails due to conflicting perl packages
I have a CentOS 5.2 i386 Production box with Qmail, LAMP etc
now since it showed me that it could upgrade to 5.3, i downloaded all the packages using yum update
However, the update fails due to perl ...
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What does that mean: packages excluded due to repository priority protections
When updating with yum i recieve the following message:
yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* atomic: www7.atomicorp.com
* base: mirror....
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Is there a way to install Apache Bench (ab) without installing apache
Can you provide instuctions on how to install ab on a fedora distro with or without installing the apache web server? With yum or compiling from source.
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yum equivalent of "apt-get purge"
I want to reinstall a package on CentOS and start from scratch. In Debian, I can do a apt-get purge foo and it'll remove all config files for foo. yum remove foo doesn't remove the config files. Is ...
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How to remove this warning "This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register."
I get the following error when i am listing the updates.Server is currently registered with ULN. Although its a warning, i do not want the below message displayed when i am issuing yum command.i found ...
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Solving multilib version problems
I use CentOS 6.4
When I tried to install libgcc with yum install libgcc.i686 I took following massages.
Error: Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
cause is ...
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Installing Fedora RPMs in CentOS
How safe is it to install Fedora RPMs in CentOS 5? Does it depend on the version of the Fedora RPM or is it generally better to steer clear?
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Download RPM packages for command which is already installed
I have a CentOS machine in which I already installed openssl-devel using
$ yum install openssl-devel
It downloaded and installed all the dependency packages.
Now I need all those RPM packages. Is ...
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How did installing this RPM create a file?
Running yum install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/redhat/7/noarch/RPMS/getpagespeed-extras-release-7-1.el7.gps.noarch.rpm creates /etc/cron.d/sysstat2 but RPM disavows the file:
# rpm -ql ...
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yumdownloader vs repotrack
I'm working on CentOS 6.3.
Recently I come across repotrack from yum-utils.
yumdownloader --resolve and repotrack looks very similar,
but it looks like yumdownloader download only part of ...
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Can you force yum to ignore an exclude list?
We are using a custom repository with RHEL 5.x. We were running into a ton of issues and conflicts when trying to run an update (issues with yum 32bit packages conflicting with x64 packages). To get ...
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CentOS Insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/base/packages
I was trying to yum install libpcap when I got
Error Downloading Packages:
14:libpcap-0.9.4-15.el5.i386: Insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/base/packages
* free 0
* ...
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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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Yum on Centos 8 - Failed to download metadata for repo 'AppStream'
I'm on a fresh Centos 8 install and have tried to use yum for the first time (on this machine). I get the following for any attempt to install or update anything:
yum update
CentOS-8 - AppStream ...
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CentOS 6.5 new Kernel not active after reboot
Today I was running some yum updates and wanted to verify that everything went through fine by making sure I had a new kernel. To my surprise I noticed that CentOS was still running 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6....
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Tools for maintaining yum repositories
Are there any tools for maintaining private yum repositories?
Specifically, I'd like to:
upload rpms and have them placed in the proper directory;
indexes/metadata kept-up-to-date automatically;
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Is there any decent repositories for CentOS or Fedora?
I'm known as a hater of RPM/Yum based OS, just because i think their lacking of decent package repositories (at least for recent software).
While in Debian/Ubuntu, there are a lot of good ...
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Why do I get different openssl versions?
I'm trying to check if I running the latest OpenSSL version, my main concern is the heartbleed bug.
I tried 2 commands:
openssl version
yum info openssl
openssl version output
OpenSSL 1.0.1e-...
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Howto install php 5.2.17 on centos 6 x86_64
Does anyone know how to install php 5.2.17 on a 64bit centos 6 install? I've got a old legacy system that requires php 5.2.17, but centos 6 only supports php 5.3.
I've installed repo's such as ...
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Upgrading curl on centos 6: libcurl-7.50 requires libnghttp2
I am trying to upgrade curl but keep on getting this error:
Package: libcurl-7.50.0-1.1.cf.rhel6.x86_64 (CityFan)
Requires: libnghttp2.so.14()(64bit)
I am not sure how to get this ...
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How do I use RPM to install GCC from my CentOS distribution media?
I have a few package installation related questions concerning RPM, YUM and CentOS and getting GCC installed:
I've mounted my distribution media on my CentOS 5.2 machine but I can't seem to work out ...