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tell yum to ignore a single dependency
The rpm command has the --nodeps option that you can use. A challenge is that rpm by itself is not aware of yum repositories. The following command will install or update the package, ignoring ...
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Upgrade cURL to latest on CentOS
This is an old question, but it is still one the first results in google search, so I'd like post the solution that solved my problem.
Create a new file /etc/yum.repos.d/city-fan.repo
Paste the ...
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Install rpm package using Ansible
Ansible yum module already provides a solution for this problem. The path to the local rpm file on the server can be passed to the name parameter.
From the Ansible yum module documentation:
You can ...
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What's the difference between `yum install <local path>` and `yum localinstall <local path>`
In RHEL 5 and previous versions, yum install only accepted package names from enabled repositories, and did not accept paths to local RPMs; you had to use yum localinstall to install these.
In RHEL 6 ...
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Install rpm package using Ansible
Actually the yum module can install an RPM directly from a given URL:
- name: Remote RPM install with yum
yum: name=http://example.com/some_package.rpm
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What does the "1:" before the package name mean in yum.log
1 is the RPM epoch number. It overrides the normal comparison order on version checking. So, if there is some odd reason why you as a packager want to mark a lower version number as an upgrade, you ...
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Do I need a RHEL subscription to install packages?
An alternative is to add the CentOS repository to your yum configs. CentOS is in large part a derivative of RHEL. As such, most of its packages are compatible with RHEL.
Michael Cutler wrote a guide ...
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Can one require "this OR that" package in an RPM spec file?
This is now possible as of RPM 4.13.
https://rpm-software-management.github.io/rpm/manual/boolean_dependencies.html
It can be just simple as: Requires: (pkgA >= 3.2 or pkgB)
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How did installing this RPM create a file?
# rpm -qp --scripts getpagespeed-extras-release-7-1.el7.gps.noarch.rpm
warning: getpagespeed-extras-release-7-1.el7.gps.noarch.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 222b0e83: NOKEY
postinstall ...
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Download RPM packages for command which is already installed
It is possible to download the packages of an RPM which is already installed using the --downloadonly switch. I am not sure why yum doesn't check this setting before checking whether the package is ...
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Disable SSL check rpm
What you would need to do is:
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
If you still get an SSL warning try:
wget --no-check-certificate https://dl.fedoraproject....
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How did installing this RPM create a file?
You discovered the rpm's scripts run a script from the Internet, and that script currently redirects to what might be malware. Although, I'm not finding much of a payload that does anything.
rpm ...
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Build RPM using source directory, not tarball
This question is a bit old, but in case other people find it in search there is a more correct way to do this that does also allow the creation of an SRPM.
In the prep section, instead of using the ...
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Disable the public key check for rpm installation
For legacy RPM Linux without yum use:
rpm -i --nosignature
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Installing Postgres server 9.6 on Amazon Linux
You have installed the repository that makes PostgreSQL packages available (check /etc/yum.repos.d). Now you can do yum update and actually install the DB with yum install postgresql96-server.
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Getting diffs for file changes detected by rpm -V
#
# Install yumdownloader
#
yum install yum-utils
#
# search modified files (in this case: from pam_ldap)
#
rpm -V pam_ldap
S.5....T. c /etc/pam_ldap.conf
#
# make tmp-dir and download rpm
#
mkdir ...
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yum error in PREUN scriptlet when removing packages
I did a rpm -ql <packagename> to see the package original contents.
manually deleted any left over file.
ran yum with the noscripts flag as described above, so the script doesn't fail.
yum --...
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Difference between rpm -ivh <package> and yum install <package>
For rpm you must specify where to get the file with the new version of the package.
yum, which is a more intelligent management system, try to find a new version of the package in their repositories, ...
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Solving multilib version problems
I've hit this after interrupting yum update (during an ansible run in my case). After reading this thread I eventually fixed it with:
package-cleanup --cleandupes
Though before that I'd also tried ...
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yum/rpm Failed to initialize NSS library in chroot
Special thank you to TrevorH and jhodrien on #centos.
The problem was that chroot prevents access to /dev/urandom (as desgined). The update installed to succeeded required those random bits to ...
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yum list available - not showing all packages
If the package is installed, it will not show up as available. You can specify the --showduplicates option to see everything that is available in a repo whether it is installed or not. I would ...
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what's the diff between rpm -U and rpm -F
Compare
rpm {-U|--upgrade} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ...
This upgrades or installs the package currently installed to a newer
version. This is the same as install, except all other ...
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searching for installed rpms by vendor
You can show packages by vendor using a query format. I'd consider something like this, to list all packages:
rpm -qa --queryformat '%{vendor}:%{name}\n' | sort > packages.txt
You can then ...
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How to add a repo to YUM on Ubuntu?
You don't. yum is the package management tool on RHEL-derived distributions and Fedora, Ubuntu uses apt instead.
You need to learn what that package is called in the Ubuntu repos and install it with ...
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Why are some RPM's "not relocatable"?
In fact, most RPM packages you will find are not relocatable.
The Fedora Packaging Guidelines have this to say:
The use of RPM's facility for generating relocatable packages is strongly ...
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Trouble removing package using Yum on CentOS7
The package isn't installed at all.
yum list lists all available packages, whether installed or not.
To show only installed packages, use yum list installed.
yum list installed | grep boto
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Install rpm package using Ansible
Here's what I do to install multiple RPMs from the source machine:
- name: mkdir /tmp/RPMS
file: path=/tmp/RPMS state=directory
- name: copy RPMs to /tmp/RPMS
copy:
src: "{{ item }}"
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Installing rpm-package to systemd?
each rpm specifies a list of files and directories that it installs. Two rpms cannot install the same files or directories. In your spec file (or whatever file you use to describe the rpm you build) ...
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yum install local rpm throws error if up to date
on my system (centos6, centos7) "yum localinstall" will return code 0 even with "Error: Nothing to do" message, while "yum install" returns 1.
sudo yum localinstall packages/* -y --disablerepo=*
...
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Do .rpm files have metadata
I've forked @Ignacio answer and created oneliner to quickly go over all tags:
rpm -qp package.rpm --qf "$(rpm --querytags | sed -nr 's/(.*)/\1:%{\1}/p' | tr '[:space:]' '\n')"
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