Yellowdog Updater Modified (yum) is an interactive, rpm based, package manager.
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How come I don't have package updates in Fedora?
I last updated my Fedora 14 install weeks ago, so I expected a slew of new packages waiting for me, but after I run yum update, I instead get:
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Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for ...
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Unable to install the php-posix package on CentOS 5.6
I have the following PHP packages installed on my CentOS 5.6 host and I am trying to install php-posix. When I run yum install php-posix I receive an error saying that php53-common conflicts with ...
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How to install packages to a custom location in centos6
I have a shared location, let me call it /tp I want to install all my libraries and packages in this location just like the default install. Reason to do this is: I want all the users in the network ...
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Yum Cannot Retrieve Repository CentOS 6
I just installed CentOS 6. I tried running yum update and was having trouble getting that to work, so I tried yum clean all and now my situation seems even worse than before. Based upon what I pasted ...
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Using YUM or installing APT on CentOS
I am having trouble with a centOS machine I am using. I need some packages, including john the ripper, but yum cannot find the packages.
When I type sudo yum install john, I get back the nothing to ...
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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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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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How to enable nagios user created by yum to use check_by_ssh
I've used yum install nagios on an Amazon Linux instance, and it created a nagios user with shell /sbin/nologin and homedir /var/spool/nagios. This is the behaviour on EC2.
I want to use check_by_ssh ...
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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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Install MySQL from Bash Script
I'm coding a bash script to automate the process of deploying VPS servers but I'm having some trouble while trying to install MySQL from either aptitude/apt-get or yum, this is what I have so far:
if ...
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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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Yum update error: “can't start new thread”
I found several posts on this, but none of them work.
When I do yum update, I get the error thread.error: can't start new thread; full stacktrace follows:
[root@ripper234 ~]# yum update
Loaded ...
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Finding yum equivalents of apt repositories?
I have code to setup an Ubuntu server that relies on apt-get. It has lots of packages as documented on our project wiki, for example these: development environment and the ruby dependencies.
However, ...
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Requires: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.052
Im trying to run a yum update but getting stopped by dependencies. I have installed rpmforge el6 which i need for other packages.
Error: Package: perl-IO-Compress-2.052-1.el6.rfx.noarch ...
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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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How do you add a package (or a mirror?) if the .rpm youre looking for isnt availabe in your VM build of CentOS?
I have yum and rpm, and I really only how to install packages using these commands. When I tried to yum install figlet on a new CentOS6 virtual machine it couldn't find it in the mirrors list. I tried ...
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What repositories do I need to install heartbeat and haproxy on RHEL?
So I am now managing two RHEL machines that I need to install haproxy and heartbeat on. When I follow instructions to do so I get the following:
[admin@p2378442 ~]$ sudo yum -y install heartbeat ...
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Error during yum update
CentOS 6.3
Recently I've started getting the following error on my CentOS VPS when running yum update:
[user@foo1 ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached ...
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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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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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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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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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where to find unhide-tcp for centos 6?
I've got a centOS 6 64 bit server, and have installed rkhunter.
I spent some time running scans and tweaking things so that rkhunter throws up no warnings (e.g setting the PermitRootLogin var in ...
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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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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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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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Resolve missing package dependencies when trying to install octave
I am trying to install the octave software package on a RHEL 6 Workstation. I have installed the epel-release 6.5 package to enable the EPEL package repository. When I try to install the octave using ...
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List all RPM packages installed from repo “X”
How can I get a list of all of the RPM packages that have been installed on my system from a particular repo (e.g., "epel")?
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How to upgrade Fedora Core 3?
I want to upgrade from fedora core 3 to latest release without using a cd. I have internet connection.
Is it possible to use yum to upgrade the OS entirely to the latest version? At present there ...
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Augeas not reading all yum.repos.d files. Why?
I'm trying to use Augeas to manage some options in yum.repos.d but it's not reading all repo files in there.
Any hint?
# ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200 Nov 10 15:50 ...
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Why are updates pushed to Fedora's updates-testing repos initially invisible?
I follow various bugs on Red Hat Bugzilla, and I just received a notification from the Fedora Update System that a new package was available for testing that supposedly fixes a bug I was interested ...
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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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How do I install WINE in RHEL 6.3?
I'm a beginner in Linux and I'm having a problem installing wine
I'm using RHEL 6.3 and when I use
yum install wine
it keeps giving me this
Blockquote Error: Package: wine-core-1.4.1-1.el6.i686 ...
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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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install using YUM without root permissions
So I don't have root permissions but I've been installing packages to a local directory on my(CentOS) system and it works fine.
But I was wondering if I can do the same using yum. The reason I want ...
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Trying to update php on CentOS 5.7
Apologies in advance - I'm not a good Linux user by any stretch of the imagination.
I have a CentOS 5.7 dedicated server on which I host a few websites.
I currently have php 5.2.10 installed, but ...
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“Cannot run C compiled programs” error when installing PDO PHP module
I have a cPanel server I want to install some packages on. I connected to the server as root and ran the following commands to update and delete all the existing repositories:
yum update
yum clean ...
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yum proxy http errors
I've a VM running Centos 5.5 and I'm trying to get yum to update via a company proxy.
I can browse the web within the VM using the proxy setting , but I cannot get yum to use the proxy.
I'm getting ...
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Obtaining/Packaging RPM dependencies for Fedora/RHEL linux application — no network access
I currently have an RPM file with 2-3 dependencies specified in the 'Requires' section. When this application is installed using yum, it works fine and the dependencies are installed if they are ...
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Install packages in $HOME/usr
I'm looking to script use of rpm --relocate. How to change the default location packages are installed to - from user/local to $HOME/usr?
Do I need to do it all manually (removing and reinstaling to ...
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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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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 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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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 ...
