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axelget, yum and crccheck failed
I want to increase my download speed with yum and finally found a solution (axelget) that works fine at the beginning. But after one time work, I get an error and I cannot use it any more because of ...
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On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 how can i use Python 2.7 as default not Python 2.6? I did but still showing 2.6
RHEL 6.2 i have python 2.6 but i need default python 2.7 using yum packaging (so that nothing goes messed up, cause its a heavy duty working system, all i need the python 2.7 on it, without messing ...
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Running a Script as Soon as a Network Interface is Detected as Active
I was just wondering if it was possible to run a script as soon as a test to see if a network interface is up (like a ping or something)? I think it would be pretty awesome to update my yum when I ...
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Why yum resolve dl.google.com to an IPv6 address?
I installed Google chrome browser on Fedora 18. Now when I try update softwares using yum upgrade, it report the following error and I can't get chrome updated.
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Reinstall XOrg with Yum - Fedora 18
Some how I messed up Xorg and need to reinstall it, with Yum. I can not find any Xorg packages, but it has to be out there right?
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How to list RPM packages installed in order of installation date
I'd like to see a list of software installed in the order of the date they were installed. The order doesn't matter (newest to oldest & vice-versa) as long as they're arranged by date.
I'm mainly ...
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yum update version issue
I am using fedora 13 (2.6.33 ). Due to some reasons I cannot update the kernel nor can I upgrade fedora itself to 18 due to some legacy software I am using for business purpose. So my question is how ...
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Disable repository updating in fedora
Fedora checks all repository for updating when every time i want to install some packages from yum. this is waste of time because i know they are updated!
how could i disable this checking?
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How do I force yum to download from a specific mirror?
In a Fedora system, I can access only ftp and not http. When I try to install a package with yum, it usually tries to download from http mirrors. How do I force it to download from a ftp mirror(listed ...
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How do I remove a simple piece of software?
I want to get rid of the automatically installed solitaire "games" in my brand new Fedora 18. I tried the gnome way, but nothing gets listed when I search for "silitaire". I tried the command line ...
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How to list all the installed package in fedora with the time of the installation
I can list them use
sudo yum list installed
but how to make them display when each were installed?
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1answer
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Fedora 14 install Fedora 19 software?
I am using Fedora 14 right now and find some software in the fc14 repository is a little old.
I need some software in my machine to be updated, say, to the Fedora 19 version.
Without upgrading the ...
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Is it normal that Fedora's yum list kernel-* shows two versions of kernel being used?
Is it true that the following shows that two versions of the kernel are being used? (Is the bold face -- the one enclosed in ** showing what is currently loaded / used). Basically, I just created a ...
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Will Fedora's yum update install a “current” or beta version of the kernel and cause problems?
Short question is: should we always do a yum update --exclude=kernel-* to do an update in Fedora?
I was a bit surprised that when I got a new Fedora machine at work (it used to be Red Hat Enterprise ...
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Fedora in Oracle VM VirtualBox: installing guest additions
What are the pros and conses of two method of installing VirtualBox guest additions:
via the Devices -> Install Guest Additions...;
via su -c 'yum install VirtualBox-guest' from rpmfusion ...
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yum install failing with strange output
I am using below command to install gcc on my laptop running fedora 17.
yum install gcc
But I am getting strange output.
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Resolving ...
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Command for yum to install all packages without dependency
Is there any way for yum to install only that packages, that doesn't have any dependencies? I'm trying to install all python2 libraries. The code:
su -c 'yum install python-\*'
And I've get (ignore ...
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How to make an rpm package that installs a Java environment if needed
I'm very new to RPM packaging and I'm curious if, during the installation of one RPM it is possible to conditionally install another RPM if needed.
In a nutshell.
My RPM requires a particular JRE. ...
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Meaning of the yum error “Package tuple (…) could not be found in rpmdb”
I just want to install two packages in my Fedora 15 but I am getting some weird
error.
Command:
yum install @development-tools
Error:
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit ...
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How to tell yum that a package is installed when it thinks it isn't?
I accidentally deleted all my RPM data (I removed /var/lib/rpm/* instead of /var/lib/rpm/__*), and then ran rpm --rebuilddb. Now when I try to run yum update I get:
Could not parse metalink ...
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1answer
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Replace python built with UCS4 with UCS2
I've got fedora fc15 installed with python 2.7.1-7.fc15. It is built with ucs4 and I've got some packages here at work that are built with ucs2. I now cannot build other packages that use these ucs2 ...
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yum Damaged repomd.xml file
I'm having trouble doing anything with yum on Fedora 16. Here is the output I'm getting:
[user@mycomputer yum-3.4.3]$ sudo yum update
[sudo] password for user:
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, ...
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Sudo yum permission denied Fedora 17
On Fedora 13, in /etc/sudoers I used to have a line:
Cmnd_Alias SOFTWARE=/usr/bin/yum
and then for a user that would have the privilege of installing his/her own RPM packages, an entry like:
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1answer
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How to automatically install packages?
I want to install packages automatically by running a script
I can write yum install php, but I want it to install another package once installation of the php package is completed.
Is there any ...
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Are packages downloaded from multiple mirror sites?
I'm running F17 and inside of yum.repos.d. I see multiple repos listed like adobe-linux-1386.repo, fedora.repo, google-chrome.repo, etc. When I yum install are some files being downloaded from ...
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What is happening exactly when I install a package with yum?
I'm running F17 from Terminal. I was wondering what is happening in the background when I yum install packagename. Is that package being searched for on my browser? Where is it being downloaded from? ...
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How do I install Chromium on F17?
I just installed the Beefy Miracle on my box, but essentially being the first time I've used Linux I'm not sure how to perform even some of the most basic tasks.
I thought I would try to install ...
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2answers
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How do I install packages with F17?
I just installed Fedora 17 on my box and I'm having trouble installing packages. I used to think that across all linux os'es all it took was sudo apt-get install packagae.
I don't think this is the ...
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2answers
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'yum update' without internet connectioon
I have a PC and a laptop. my laptop is always updated, so for updating the PC I don't want to download the packages again for my PC. What I do is copying rpm files from ...
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Trouble migrating from Yum to apt-get
I recently migrated from using Fedora to Debian. And I'm having some issues with the package manager.
I used to be able to search for packages via yum using :
yum search ...
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1answer
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Removing configured PROXY in fedora?
Some time back I configured proxy for fedora to install packages through yum.
I forgot how exactly I did it.
Now I don't need proxy any more.How can I reconfigure my proxy settings?
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Yum update/install to any package is giving me the following error. What actions do I need to take to overcome this?
Yum update/install to any package is giving me the following error. What actions do I need to take to overcome this?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ...
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There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum
I installed the Python bindings of VTK 5.1 correctly. In Python, import vtk worked, but import itk did not work yet. So I wanted to install the Python bindings of ITK 4.2.
I needed to install SWIG ...
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How to use SOCKS proxy with yum?
The man page to yum.conf describes several proxy related variables:
proxy URL to the proxy server that yum should use.
proxy_username username to use for proxy
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yum require an older version of a package as dependency
I have installed TexLive 2012 via the official site and want to install epydoc which depends on an older version. However, when I try to install epydoc which depends on texlive, I get the below ...
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Graphical interface to YUM in Fedora 16
What are the options for managing yum software graphically in Fedora 16? and how can they be installed (if they aren't already)?
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“Couldn't resolve host” when installing/updating yum packages
Whenever I try to install or update a package using yum, after it updates its DB these messages are shown:
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, tidy-cache google64
...
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How do I fix the “Cannot retrieve repository metadata” error in Fedora 14?
When I try to install anything on Fedora 14, I get the following output:
Repository base is listed more than once in the configuration
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
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How to add the RPM Fusion and livna repositories to Fedora?
RPM Fusion and Livna.org are common third party package repositories for Fedora. You need them if you want to install media players, codecs and/or DVD playback libraries that are not part of the ...
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What means warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno when installing from rpmfusion?
Installing a media player from rpmfusion (via yum) yields following output:
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 3 Packages ...
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Remove unused packages - Fedora
I have installed some rpm package on my fedora 17. Some packages had a lot of dependencies.
I have removed some packages but I forgot remove unused dependencies with yum remove.
How can I do that ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to install and remove packages in a single yum command?
Is there a way to add and remove packages at the same time with a single yum command? For example, installing postfix and removing sendmail without running two separate commands/transactions.
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Optimize command yum
I would like knowing if there is a way to increase the performance of the command yum to install and search packages.
I'm a very happy new user of Fedora 16.
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How to make unused dependencies clean with yum? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I remove Orphan Packages in Fedora?
I need something equal gentoo's
emerge --depclean
so how to make unused dependencies clean with yum?
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Can we now find boost 1.48.0 on yum in Fedora 16?
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I really cannot find any information on the Web. Boost 1.48.0 has been out on the website for two days but there has still been no update ...
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Yum stopped working after upgrading it
I just did yum upgrade yum and now I can't use it. It keeps showin this error:
[root@devlon5 www]# yum install pdftohtml
epel/primary_db 100% |=========================| 3.8 MB 00:00 ...
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Prevent yum from checking for updates when a new package is going to be installed
Whenever I want to install a new package with yum, It first checks for updates. Is there a way to stop it from checking for updates each time a package is going to be installed?
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Fedora 15: something weird going on with yum
I am unsuccessfully trying to install some packages in Fedora 15 using yum. Every time I use yum install I get this output:
[ziga@ziga-CQ56 ~]$ sudo yum install yum-fastestmirror
[sudo] password for ...
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2answers
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Update yum offline
I've been looking around for a way to update an offline fedora box but haven't found anything. I only have a Windows computer connected to the Internet. I noticed that my yum config is pointed to ...
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Problem installing JDT in Eclipse on linux
I installed Eclipse on Fedora Core 14 using yum install eclipse-platform. I ran eclipse and tried to install the java development tools, but then this error came up:
Cannot complete the install ...
