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How to update the version of gcc-c++ on Fedora?

I have version 4.4.4 of gcc installed and would like to update to either a specific version or to the latest version. Here is what I have tried: sudo yum install gcc-c++ this tells me that Package ...
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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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Java update on Centos

I am pretty unfamiliar with Linux, and the more I use it the more I realize how unfamiliar I am. I have a Centos 6.2 machine. It currently has JDK 1.6.0_26 installed. I would like to update that to ...
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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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yum is asking the kernel version which is already there

I have a server with centos 5.3 x86_64 on it. I am trying to install some asterisk modules on this server using yum. So yum asked me to upgrade my kernel to "kernel-2.6.18-308.11.1.el5" Then i have ...
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Hanging at “Running Transaction Test” when trying to install php-soap

I have here a CentOS 5 and I'm trying to run yum install php-soap but the installer hangs on and the last step is Running Transaction Test. I found out that NFS shares are the problem. See here or ...
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Linux Centos 5.5 yum update command is not working

I have done lots of things to update. yum clean all yum clean metadata yum clean dbcache then yum update outputs: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.6/addons/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] ...
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How to block yum from upgrading obsoleted package?

Is there any way to prevent yum from upgrading a package obsoleted by another? I have created a custom repo containing some packages, among them openh323-devel. In current versions of CentOS, ...
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What is a Transaction Check Error ? (yum update)

I tried today to replace packages from atomiccorp's repositories with newer packages from the epel/remi repositories and received Transaction Check Errors. I cannot proceed with my update. Install ...