Questions tagged [yum]
Yellowdog Updater Modified (yum) is an interactive, rpm based, package manager.
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Yum, Rpm and Find Command Not Found [closed]
I am trying to use "yum", "rpm" and "find" commands to install cpanel on my vps, but i am just getting "command not found", please help
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Boot partition full on CentOS 6
I am encountering a problem using yum update where /boot does not have enough free space to continue. I have read over a few other posts and the most helpful responses I found indicate the safest and ...
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How to install specific release of a package
I have to deal with some specific custom in-house repository for yum. I want to be able to install the lastest tagged version of my package. Repo at the same time contains hundreds of different ...
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Mirrors failing for RHEL 7 yum install
I have a RHEL 7 that has connectivity to the internet and no proxy in between.
I can ping 8.8.8.8
I am trying to install grafana (an application for dashboards) based on official docs: http://docs....
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How to install font with terminal command line?
I'm trying to install SimSun Font through the command line.
I am connected to aws with ssh. I don't know much about linux.
The reason I am trying to install this font is because a Pentaho report ...
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with yum how can you remove a package but not remove its dependencies at the same time?
Today if I do $ yum remove packageA I am greeted with:
Removing:
packageA noarch 3.5.1.b37-15 @yumFS 293 k
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Downgrade MySQL 5.7 to 5.1 in CentOS 6
I previously installed MySQL built-in 5.1 and it worked well. Today, I followed this article and installed 5.7. Unfortunately, my VM has limited ram (512mb) and 5.7 cannot be started. I would like to ...
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I use yum to install the vsftpd. Why is it not located in `/etc/rc.d/init.d/`?
My yum source is local iso source, and I use yum install vsftpd -y,
I use whereis find the vsftpd:
[root@localhost etc]# whereis vsftpd
vsftpd: /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd /usr/share/man/man8/...
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YUM: How to see what an RPM requires, and presence of prereqs on system without inet
Using yum on CentOS 6.8 and 7
System lacks outbound connectivity, for security. We push the needed rpms to the system via sftp.
Questions:
If a prereq is missing , and we do yum localinstall, will ...
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CentOS 7 - yum not using proxy for all requests
I'm trying to configure yum to use a proxy for all requests. So I added to /etc/yum.conf :
proxy=http://proxy.domain.local:8080/
yum is working correctly, but I can see in my iptable logs that yum ...
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How to add default yum repositories for CentOS 7.3?
I've installed CentOs 7 on my server and realized for some unknown reasons (at least by me), default yum repositories doesn't not work.
for example I tried yum install vim but got
Loaded plugins: ...
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Yum failing: Requires installed packages
I have recently installed Red Hat RHEL 7 on an x86_64 machine and yum has been failing for some packages with similar (strange) output.
Here is one example, when trying to install gcc:
Error: Package:...
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CentOS 7 - yum won't install mongodb
I'm trying to install mongodb v3.4 guided by MongoDB.
First I create "/etc/yum.repo.d/mongodb.repo",
then I paste this repo info in the file:
[mongodb-org-3.4]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://...
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How to uninstall all RPM in a directory?
I have a directory full of RPM files recently installed (gotten by running yum install --downloadonly prior to the install).
I want to know remove all these RPMs to get close to a 'fresh' install for ...
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How to download 3rd party rpm packages with all the dependencies for offline installation?
I want to download all the .rpm files for the below packages with all its dependencies. The problem is yum cannot find any of them nor its dependencies.
I want all these .rpm files for offline ...
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CentOS 7 default extras repository doesn't contain any packages
I am trying to install the epel-release package from the CentOS extras repository, but the repository seems to be empty. (I'm also pretty new to linux)
When I run yum repolist:
Loaded plugins: ...
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CentOS - Yum - Multiple urls
Is it possible to have multiple entries in same conf file, each with different baseurls, but be able to call them using a common name? Example:
Before:
[centos_os]
baseurl=foo.com/centos/os
[...
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Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 2287
When I excute the:
yum clean all
I get the below Error:
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 2287
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How can I build and install yum such that it runs exclusively out of a user-owned directory?
I've been searching for one day and I found nothing solid.
All the instructions I've been reading on how to install yum, assume I have access to folder /etc/ so that I can set the file /etc/yum.conf. ...
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Cron Job Download Updates
I'm running CentOS7 and I would like to know how to set up a Bi-Weekly cronjob to download update packages for CentOS6 and CentOS7 (os,extras,updates) from the fastest mirror and place them in the ...
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Cannot install anything using yum in redhat 6.2
I've recently ran some commands to resolve an issue with an installation of libgcj package from this page. I think I removed some repositories from my computer. Anyway I cannot install anything using ...
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Network error: in RHEL 6.6 while doing yum install
I'm getting below error when do yum install libgcj
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, product-id, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager
Network error:
After that, it was not ...
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There is no mysqld under the /etc/init.d after I installed the Mysql use yum
I use the below order:
[root@localhost /]# yum install -y mysql mysql-server mysql-devel
to install mysql.
After installed I want to start mysql by:
[root@localhost /]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start
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Error about i686 packages not found when installing with yum? (on x64 architecture) [closed]
I get these errors when running yum install ... (for pretty much any package)
The 'examplerepo' refers to my repository in /etc/yum.repos.d that I configured to point to
baseurl=http://vault.centos....
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Maintenance on old Centos 5
I have a dedicated application server running Centos-5. We all know that Centos-5 is no longer supported and that the logical path is to upgrade, however in our case, the application is not ready to ...
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Installing a package (grace) using yum on CentOS
Linux question: I want to install a package named 'grace' on CentOS 7.
Yum install grace fails ("No package grace available.")
The grace web page lists a debian package but apt-get isn't available ...
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Anyone know why two servers show different packages available with yum
I have two servers with CentOS 7.3 but
Server 1
[root@frontalb]# cat /etc/*release
CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="7 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
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yum install httpd returns No package httpd available on redhat 6.5
First, I illustrate the basic issue:
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
# yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-php55 install httpd
Loaded plugins: product-id, ...
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How to install libgdiplus on CentOS 7?
I need to install libgdiplus on CentOS 7. The application which I am running needs this package.
I was able to install it on Ubuntu, by using following command:
sudo apt-get install libgdiplus
But ...
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How can I debug intermittent failure of mkinitrd when updating kernel in CentOS 7?
I have a job to regularly create an AWS EC2 AMI based on the official AWS CentOS 7 image using packer. Two of the last five builds have failed to produce a bootable image, because of this:
amazon-ebs:...
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What is yum - q and what's its purpose?
Please tell me what is yum -q about? and what's its utilize?
I now the other option of yum but I don't understand yum -q!
Thank you
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What's the difference between software update and upgrade?
Someone says "update" is for small changes and "upgrade" is for big changes. I am very much confused about software update and upgrade. And when I should use update vs. when I should use upgrade.
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Unable to "yum install" on Oracle Linux 7 machine
I get the following error:
Loaded plugins: langpacks, ulninfo
http://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] curl#6 - "Could not resolve host: yum.oracle....
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Yum Installs Could not Resolve Host
When i try to install packages via yum on CentOS, I get this error message.
http://mirrors.service.networklayer.com/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/atk-devel-1.30.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ...
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How to reinstall yum and what does 'rpm = 4.8.0-55.el6' mean?
There is an error with command yum. I believe it's a difficult problem searching several days without a solution way. I finally decide to reinstall python and yum. I have yet installed python ...
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How to add Fedora Repo to a CentOS 7 installation?
I have a CentOS 7 x86_64 installation onto which I want to install a package called frama-c. This package is not in the repos I have configured so far:
# yum search frama-c
Loaded plugins: ...
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CentOS 6 local update repository and security updates
I know that official CentOS 6 (even 7) update repositories does not provide security information. The consequence is thatyum-plugin-security plugin and yum check-update --security command does not ...
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Yum update error on CentOS 5.6
I have CentOS 5.6 on my laptop.
When I type yum update, I get the below error:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ...
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Yum does nothing(Unresponsive) when installing any package or updating
I am having issues with using Yum on Redhat 7. Yum does nothing ("Unresponsive") when installing any package or updating even with sudo or root.
Here's what I did:
yum install update
rpm --...
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Making update-persistent changes to initrd in CentOS
I am booting a CentOS image via NFS, which requires a custom initramfs from dracut, with some extra modules. I want the kernel to get updated normally, using yum update. This will automatically ...
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install a directory full of RPMs so that rpms providing dependencies are installed before dependent rpms?
I have inherited an ugly script for installing some code onto an old centos relesae, I'm trying to get the original script to work before upgrading to a proper RPM.
Currently the script is trying to ...
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Why won't yum install the later release of an RPM when my custom RPM Requires that?
I created an RPM that has
Requires: ruby193-rubygem-passenger-native = 3.0.21-4.el6op
yum deplist myrpm says that myrpm requires that release and it's satisfied by that rpm which is in my ...
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Curl NSS / SSL error after update
I use a custom internal authentication server. With the last round of updates it started having issues, apparently due to a change in the ciphers. This is on a CentOS6 box, fully updated.
curl https:...
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Origin of "Yellow dog Updater, Modified"?
Everywhere it is said that yum is "Yellow dog Updater, Modified". But Google-ing all around can't find me the origin, possibly "Yellow dog Updater (unmodified)". As opposed to this, the origin of ...
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What is the "@anaconda" repo in the output from "yum list installed"?
In the output of a yum list installed, I got
wget.x86_64 1.14-13.el7 @base
which.x86_64 2.20-7.el7 @anaconda
But anaconda is not in the list of ...
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Oracle Linux yum is not working after update
I've updated my Oracle Linux 6.4 server to Oracle Linux 6.8 which is registered to spacewalk server. But after update, yum commands are not working in server.
[root@j4server tmp]# yum update
Loaded ...
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How to tell if package managers are being blocked by proxy
I've gotten permission to use a Linux OS on my workplaces network, but I strongly suspect that IT has a product that they themselves don't realize is configured to block package managers.
Over the ...
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Minimal install of CentOS 7 and Chrome
Because I eventually need to run this on docker I try to create a container with a current version of Chrome 57 x64 on CentOS 7.3. Unfortunately this does not work until I create a very bloated image ...
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Cannot yum install any packages
No matter what package I am try to install, Yum returns a [Errno 5] [Errno 2] No such file or directory error for each package/dependency.
Here is some sample output:
# yum -y install vim
Loaded ...
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No package php available on centos 6 vps
I have centos6.8 vps and installed php5.5 version using cpanel but Now I've to install/upgrade php5.6 on server but getting no packages available for php5.6 and php7.0 also;
So that, I have installed ...