Yellowdog Updater Modified (yum) is an interactive, rpm based, package manager.
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Is it stable to use epel and rpmforge in the same time?
So after a fresh Scientific Linux 6.3 Desktop install, I:
yum install rpmforge-release && yum update
and
yum install epel-release.noarch
then:
yum install wine gparted cups-pdf ...
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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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What is the easiest way to install Meld on RedHat Linux RHEL 5.4?
My company has RedHat RHEL 5.4 on the Linux box, and I need to install Meld on it. How can it be done?
$ sudo yum install meld
No package meld available.
Nothing to do
$ sudo yum search meld
No ...
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Are there any repositories for Fedora 3?
Is there any alive repository for my Fedora Core 3 Linux?
(I want to use the yum command but one error comes and tells that base url is not valid)
Any help to find any alive repository is very much ...
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Missing Dependencies/Packages on yum install
I'm at my wit's end with this.
After a lengthy series of events I've been trying to install libreoffice on Centos 6.3 using yum
I've was successful in the past but after encountering some seg faults ...
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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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How do I write a script to keep retrying Yum Update Program?
My job let me always release a new version of the program to a satellite server, then in the running server, I use yum update program to update the program.
However, due to unknown reason, in most of ...
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yum install in user home for non-admins
I am a non-admin user on a large computer system. I need some up to date packages that are not installed on the system. I want to use yum to install them. As a user without sudo, admin, or root ...
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Public key not found for RPM
I am trying to install package on Redhat 5.5 using YUM but it always give me this error
[root@redhat64 Desktop]# yum install perl-Net-Server-0.97-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, ...
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Installing yum packages by pattern
I want to install all openoffice packages. Passing openoffice* obviously wouldn't work, because it'd look at file system. How can I do that?
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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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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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How to install iftop?
I tried:
root@host [/home]# yum install iftop
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.mirrors.tds.net
* extras: yum.singlehop.com
* ...
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yum does not work on RHEL 6.3
I have installed RHEL 6.3:
Linux RHEL6.3-64-BuildMac 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 13 18:24:36 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
My /etc/yum.conf looks as follows:
[main]
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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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Updating PHP 5.3 to 5.4 in CentOS
I followed this tutorial to update PHP from 5.3 version to 5.4. My distro is CentOS 5.5.
After running the following command:
yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-test install httpd php php-common
I get ...
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CentOS connected to Internet but not updates
I have installed CentOS 6.3, OpenSUSE 12.1 and Ubuntu 12.04 on VMware Workstation 9. On any of these when I use ping to check network connectivity, I receive a proper answer, but when try to update ...
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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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How to install emacs using YUM without X11 libraries?
I have installed a minimal installation of CentOS 6.3 inside a VirtualBox VM. Now, I would like to install Emacs for use from the command line only.
When I do a search for emacs using yum search ...
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pdksh missing from RHEL 6 and CentOS 6?
The package pdksh does not exist on RHEL 6 or CentOS 6 when I try to install it through yum.
So my questions:
Why is it no longer available in the default repositories? It is available in version ...
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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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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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CentOS: disable a non-reachable repository
How to disable a non-reachable repository?
I have an error when I use yum repolist or yum list:
# yum list | grep 404
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home%3A/SannisDev/
CentOS_CentOS- ...
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Yum and recommended/suggested packages
I'd like to install a software package on my Fedora System, but it has a lot of unreasonable dependencies (which I know for sure they are not actually required).
I used to work on Debian, where ...
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“No package <package name> available.”?
I have installed a few packages using the yum package manager (e.g., I've installed the statistical programming language R), but lately I have been unable to install packages. For example, I want to ...
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In CentOS, what is the difference between yum update and yum upgrade?
What is the difference between yum update and yum upgrade, and when should I use one over the other?
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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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Why did yum-builddep not provide the dependencies to install my rpm?
I am trying to rum my rpm package but getting this dependencies error.
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -ivh /root/x86_64/asterisk-1.8.12.2-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
...
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I can't figure out how to install Firestarter Fedora
I am feeling stupid. I have been searching for 3 hours with no success.
I installed Fedora 14 and tried to do yum install firestarter but the package was not found.
I also tried from a GUI and found ...
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Remove yum repo using yum
I have no root access on my machine at work, but I have sudo permission to use sudo yum (and only yum).
Recently I accidentally installed a faulty repository (dropbox), and now I'd like to remove it. ...
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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 change the repository settings for yum installer?
I am pretty much new to Linux. I am trying to install tint2 on CentOS. When I try to install using the command yum install tint2, it gave following error
checking for X11... configure: error: Package ...
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How to easily maintain the latest versions of Apache/ MySQL/ PHP on CentOS 6.2?
We have a few servers running CentOS 6.2 deploying web applications using Apache/ MySQL/ PHP.
In the past we've just regularly run "yum update" to keep all the software up to date.
As of right now ...
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how do I install the stock centos repositories?
I have a situation where the stock repo files that should exist in /etc/yum.repos.d/ (like centos-base.repo) are not present. I need to get them installed. I am sure this is simple, but after hours of ...
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CentOS yum repository bad Header V4 RSA/SHA1 signature
I was coping with many problems to get stuck with this one.
I have installed yum repository on server (CentOS 5.6) with:
createrepo -v -s sha yumrepo/
sha is used due to solution to my earlier ...
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How to create Local Repositories in RHEL
I need to create a local repository in RHEl 5.5. i386
Because when I type some command in terminal it say that RHEL is not subscribed with RHN which is true. I took it from friend.
So can someone ...
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Download all dependencies with yumdownloader, even if already installed?
Is there a way to download all dependencies with yumdownloader, even if they are already installed?
I'm trying to create a local repo and only want to include the packages we need.
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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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VMware Tools repo
I maintain a local repository for all the installation packages. I'm attempting to use reposync (the first time, I generally use rsync to mirror what I need) and I'm getting some odd behavior. Any ...
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How to get RPM's that has been published after the install DVD?
So if I download a:
SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Install-DVD.iso
and install it, and give out a "yum update" - then it will find many-many XY packages to update.
Q: are there any methods/solutions to ...
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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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Why do I need to install -devel packages?
I am new to Linux and wonder why many times when I install package with yum I need to install package-devel.i386 rather than package.i386. What is the difference between them?
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Problems with YUM/Scientifix Linux 6.3 (inconsistent rpm database?..)
Recently I saw this:
[root@NOTEBOOK /etc/yum.repos.d] yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
epel/metalink ...
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How do I `yum localinstall` from my `yum search` result?
I'm trying to install some dependencies for thrift using yum. I've found, for example boost via yum search boost which gives me (after a load of fails as the PC not on the web, but has a local ...
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Transfer programs to another OS
I have openSUSE. I can install programs with yum.
yum install <progname>
I want to move my install to a new hard disk.
How can I transfer programs from one OS to another?
My problem is ...
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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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CentOS 4.8 and glibc 2.5
How would I go about installing glibc 2.5 on CentOS 4.8?
I know CentOS 4.8 has been EOL'd, which is all good and well. However, the environment that I am working in is using this version, and will ...
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Unable to run yum update on virtualized centOS 6.3
I am running a virtualized CentOS 6.3 on a Windows 7 computer. The computer (4 GB RAM) is connected to a corporate network.
When I run yum update, it shows some progress, then eventually the VM (2 ...
